From: Mike '/m' 


Yup, a six hours to recompile the entire operating system and all the
programs that were delivered with it.  The system running OpenBSD is a
200MHz Pentium II with a slow 5400rpm IDE drive and 64 MB memory. It's the
firewall on my DSL line.

To update a single program takes a few minutes, and no reboots.  It is the
reboot that is troublesome, because the compile can progress while I'm
still using the system.  But a reboot, well, I have to sit and watch it,
and wait until its done before I can do anything else.

 /m


On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:43:15 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>I agree with the statement about windows, but I seem to remember /m saying
>something about a 6 hour recompile on his BSD system to update something or
>other. Does Linux ever require a recompile that takes longer than a reboot?
>
>Geo.
>
>"Rich Holm"  wrote in message
>news:MPG.189e7608a1121f4b989950{at}news.barkto.com...
>>
>> Windows still requires way too many reboots to install/update software.
>> Linux only really needs a reboot when the kernel gets updates... and
>> even then there are ways around it.  Thing have gotten better, but MS
>> needs to improve in this area.  Hell, changing your desktop font
>> still (in XP) requires a reboot.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rich
>
>

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