linuxmasterrace

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[–] waka@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gentoo... oh my. I vividly remember installing it as Stage 1 on a then-budget Laptop in 2003 or so. Sure, great performance for what that device was capable of. But 24 hours compiling time until I had a desktop... Oh and all the fun of dependency resolving with emerge. @OP, alternative title:

hell

[–] megrania@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

Hehe, back in the days I was in a similar situation, and I gave a harddisk to a friend who had a more powerful PC, so he could cross-compile everything onto the harddisk. Sneaker-network compilation ...