[rescue] Wanted: 486 desktop

der Mouse mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Tue Mar 23 01:05:58 CDT 2010


>>>> Life with Unix was so much more fun when you had to compile and
>>>> install everything yourself.
>> You can still run that way today, if you choose to.  I [...]
>> compiled everything I run myself [...].
> This is what I do on the sunhelp.org systems; I start with the base
> Solaris "Developer" install with GCC, and build everything from
> scratch.  Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postfix, Perl, etc.

Oh, I was including the OS.  I don't start with a "base...install"; I
start with a blank disk on another machine and either a source tree or
an existing installation to clone.  (My very first install was another
of those few exceptions I mentioned in text I cut in the quote above;
until NetBSD grew cross-compilation support, so was my first install on
each new architecture.)

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