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by guenthert
1609 days ago
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> I may misremember. Yeah, I think you do. > Compiling the kernel was basically an overnight operation, IIRC. When, on what hardware? Who was it who complained that compiling the Linux kernel took always ten minutes, regardless of hardware generation? (which of course, isn't entirely true: https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/build-linux-kernel) For me, on my 386DX 24Mhz with 8MiB RAM, it took about 20minutes late 92 or early 93 (SLS 1.0 -- pre 1.0 kernel), but I had to leave X11, as otherwise the machine would swap to death. |
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That may have been later, thus with a bigger kernel, but on older hardware. It was probably 386 and 486s back in maybe 2.0/2.2 kernel era.
For the specific machines in question I set up some sort of RAID0 between two 60MB SCSI drives, to be able to do much.
The reason I say overnight may be because I had machines with specs like that a few years later than you. I did run Linux to some extent since 1994 (Slackware 2.0), but don't remember the kernel compiling aspects of back then at all.
But it's a good point. I was not comparing latest kernel to latest (or even necessarily median) kernel at the time.