[ILUG] Thoughts on a compile box

[Lars Hecking]

> It's getting near time to replace my trusty P133
> at home, as kernel compiles are just taking too 
> damn long...
> 
> Overall, I'm happy enough with the performance of
> Linux on this machine, except for starting Netscape
> and compiling stuff.  I don't really play games any
> more...
> 
> And with 64MB of RAM, the compilation bottleneck 
> is currently the CPU.

 Stop whining. Try my 25MHz 68040 with 22MB ram for
 a day, then you'll have *real* reason to complain.
 5 hours for a kernel compile under RH 5.2beta,
 including deps, that's what we're talking here.

 ;)