Oh well, if we’re going to quote Pog-San…
OW! you don’t need to build a kernel, Robert OW! what possible advantage does this stripping-out give your thin client OW! “At 10MB/s, the smaller build shaves 0.3s off the TFTP time” OW! “I was using 500gB hard drives” [1] OW! “I may have been running on a single core” OW! OW! OW!
But he saves the best 'til last:
“Of course, if you build kernels all day long the advantage is clear, but for me building a few kernels per year, Beast will do very well.”
Words fail me.
[1] Size is important. You need small thingies to do … er, whatever small thingies do; but when you’re immersed in serious business like building a 1.9 MB kernel, why, of course size is important. 500 GB is the minimum for an exacting task like this.
And who cares what the spindle speed is?
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“My price/performance at $150/0.333 builds/minute = $450 was better than his at $1000/build/minute by a factor of two.”
LOL! I think this should replace bogomips as performance unit in Linux! Simply compile a kernel on boot and calculate kernels/minute.
Or maybe we should not start comparing supercomputers in Gigakernels/minute?
It seems that Poggie-San is unaware of the true performance unit of Linux – the Giga-Durden!
(And really Doctor, methinks you should have mentioned such omissions by the over-esteemed Durden authority of Poggie-San.)
So, how many Giga-Durdens does your “beast” manage?
Now mind you, I’ve never rendered Shrek 17 myself, so I wouldn’t really know; but surely, the rest of you have nothing better to do, (constant re-rendering of future versions of Shrek, in the short breaks between re-compiling your kernels, truly is the GNU’s knees) no?
Pfft…
I used DistroX—a command line only distro—to render Shreck 19.5: The Final Shreckoning while simultaneously compiling my own version of Gnu/Lindroid OSX 7 and playing Pong in ASCII.
But how many Giga-Durdens did you achieve?!
The world needs to know!
The Final Shreckoning?
I’d have copyrighted that, if I were you.
In lime-green, obv.
@ReverseControllerSE
I’m pushing past a couple Tera-Durdens by now.
@DrLoser
Of course in lime green. And maybe I SHOULD copyright it… anyone know a good license I can use?
TERA-DURDENS!!!
By God, you must be using one of those new 386 machines (I say, how did you find one of those?).
Oh, how I envy you, but I shall never leave my beloved 286, never I tell you… well, I actually never owned one … hmm… should I scour a nearby waste deposit?
I mean, think of the Durdens…
“but when you’re immersed in serious business like building a 1.9 MB kernel, why, of course size is important. 500 GB is the minimum for an exacting task like this.”
When I’ve read this, I spilled cola through my nose all over my desk. Very good one! :D
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