Back in ~2005 when I was still very new to Linux I had this old Dell that I put Gentoo on. It was a 900MHz Intel Coppermine with a minuscule amount of memory, so things compiled very slow. Being the wise Linux guru that I was back then, I decided that I would emerge (compile) all of X, fluxbox, OpenOffice, and probably 1 or 2 other things.
I didn't have distcc set up. It compiled for days.
One thing I really did enjoy was watching the cryptic messages crawl by, and one that always mystified me was during the configure stages:
checking for gawk... gawk
It seemed like a total nonsense word. To this day I still have fond memories every time someone mentions (g)awk.
Back in ~2005 when I was still very new to Linux I had this old Dell that I put Gentoo on. It was a 900MHz Intel Coppermine with a minuscule amount of memory, so things compiled very slow. Being the wise Linux guru that I was back then, I decided that I would emerge (compile) all of X, fluxbox, OpenOffice, and probably 1 or 2 other things.
I didn't have distcc set up. It compiled for days.
One thing I really did enjoy was watching the cryptic messages crawl by, and one that always mystified me was during the configure stages:
It seemed like a total nonsense word. To this day I still have fond memories every time someone mentions (g)awk.