Subj : ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
To   : Benny Pedersen
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Wed Aug 12 2020 18:05:12

Hey Benny!

 BP> who needs 36 ?, one is sometimes faster then 36 old womans :)

I'll believe it when I see it.  I've heard recent rumours of a six second kernel compile.  I am nowhere near that with 2|4|6|8 penguins on the various machines I currently have at my disposal the fastest one being a 6 penguin 4.1GHz cpu.  I haven't timed it but I am positive it would be minutes and not seconds.  As we speak I have a 5.7.14 kernel running on there.  The newest 5.8.1 still has issues with graphics but is better than 5.8.0 which didn't work at all.

 BP> i had forget to turn off multilib

I haven't done a multilib since about 2005.  Way too much work for absolutely no good reason ... unless of course you enjoy crippling machines.

 BP> i have a slackware at home running on atom cpu, not impressed

I have 2 at the moment.  Neither is running any distribution.  They are both customized console only linux-gnu development systems with one running wireless access to the internet for so-called smartphones in the neighbourhood.  They work great for what they are intended to do and both can and do take care of themselves.

 BP> its wild enough that graphics cards have now more memory then my
 BP> first amiga harddisk

Also power consumption.  Personally I have no use for those and the closest I come to that is a generation 9 i5-9400 with it's builtin Intel® UHD Graphics 630.  This is the one that has issues with the newest 5.8 kernels.  I am using it to test console based framebuffer graphics with mplayer's "-vo fbdev2" switch.

Life is good,
Maurice

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