Re: Re: Pentium Optimized
A needed feature of this possible source-only distro would be pre-built
binary packages that can easily be replaced one-by-one as the source
packages are compiled and installed. The time required to compile the
entire distribution would be hours--possibly days/weeks/months, depending
on the system doing the compiling. And in situations where the user wants
to compile the sources on the target machine itself, that would be an
absolute necessity, not just a nice feature.
Even compiling an entire i486-optimized distro on a pIII will take HUGE
amounts of time. Doing it on the i486 itself would take many times
longer.
I have visions of compiling the entire distribution on my poor 33Mhz SPARC
with 48mb RAM for months on end.... Took 3 hours 2 minutes just to compile
a kernel on that thing! :-)
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Thomas Ko wrote:
> I wrote it before in a mail to the mailing-list, that it would be useful to
> have a source-only distribution that you can compile for any platform you
> need.
>
> My question is the possibility and if someone is interested in these
> things and if someone is working on it.
>
> Debian seems to me to be the right candidate for it, because the whole
> source is freely available, no proprietary configuration tools like SuSE's
> yast.
>
> Benefit: you buy one set of CDs and can compile it (essential to me is
> i486, i686, PowerPC (Mac)) everywhere.
>
> What do you think??? - possible, needful,...
>
> Thomas Kotzian
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