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[hyperbovine]

I haven't compiled it since the days of Slackware but it took at least on hour on my Pentium 90. (Then I discovered Debian.)

[claudiug → hyperbovine]

Remember gentoo Linux

[peller → claudiug]

I'll admit the endless compiling was often torturous, but I have the Gentoo docs to thank for most of what I know about the innards of Linux and operating systems. Bet I'm not alone in judging the time spent worth it :)

[thomasmeeks → peller]

My time in Gentoo was absolutely worth it for the same reasons. There are dozens of us! Dozens!

I still recommend it to people who are serious about diving into Linux.

[c3833174 → peller]

I'd say I learned more by playing around with Slackware, but Gentoo provides all those nice tools to mantain a consistent system.

[quickben → claudiug]

Actually considering it for the next build. 16 amd core CPU. Probably 4 machines to crunch on something in the next few years.

These are awesome times we live in.