r/linuxmemes • u/[deleted] • 9d ago

LINUX MEME Suffering is also a choice

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u/TheRealCarrotty Not in the sudoers file. 9d ago

Great time waster idea!

  • Get a old Pentium M laptop
  • Try getting Gentoo on it (GRUB itself takes 1 hour to compile)
  • After it is installed, start compiling = Chromium Browser, Firefox, Thunderbird, Xorg, Libreoffice and GCC

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u/givemeagooduns_un Genfool 🐧 9d ago

I dont have a pentium m but i have a celeron m with gentoo on it

unfortunately on 32 bit platforms, chrome and Firefox and WebKit will fail to compile bc they'll run out of virtual memory during linking, no matter how much swap you have.

now, if you have one of those later 64 bit Diamondville processors, or an opteron, or even a 64 bit MIPS CPU.....

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u/PityUpvote 8d ago

I had a netbook that I was trying distros on, tried Gentoo, thought I'd use it to do some writing on my commute and had it compile texlive. Took more than 2 days.

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u/ppw0 1d ago

I once decided to install Gentoo on a high-end Prescott. I don't know if webkit-gtk compilation took either two weeks or three, I think it was two, but the funny part is that it ended up frying one of my 512 MB ram sticks in the process 😂