[ale] Need a better Linux distro

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Mon Jun 1 16:02:44 EDT 2020


On Sun, 31 May 2020 23:50:32 -0400
Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On 5/31/20 9:30 PM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
> >
> > Gentoo is interesting, but all my computers are old; second or
> > third hand.   
> 
> As are all mine. Your point? :)

Depending on how old, initial compilation takes more than a day on old
computers. Even daily updates take awhile on old computers.

I wonder if there's a way to do the initial compilations on a VM, where
they're very fast, and then rsync the results to root on the iron
machine?

SteveT

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