Subj : ain't worth a plugged martian nickle
To   : Nick Boel
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Aug 13 2026 12:08 am

Hej Nick!

> Finally, the fellas over at Archlinux finally came through for me,
> a couple days after you!

Only if you count my kv-7.1.7 build.  I just upgraded to kv-7.1.8 on the 
EuroPoint.

<Esc>:read /proc/version
Linux version 7.1.8 (root@europoint) (gcc (GCC) 16.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 
2.47.20260726) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Aug 12 22:42:26 UTC 2026

That puts me behind Archlinux by 134778 seconds.  Mind you kv-7.1.8 wasn't 
available when I first upgraded to the new gcc-16.2.0 release, which happened 
on the 9th.  Given that I am just one person I honestly believe that puts my 
builds more or less up to speed with the fellas at Archlinux.

> Three machines updated and rebooted in about 3 minutes (I did them
> all about the same time). ;)

Yes but that is cheating.  I am more impressed with the fellas over at 
Archlinux.  They did all the hard work so that you could update and reboot in 3 
minutes.  It took me literally days to build 3 systems each from scratch.  I 
have one more to go but am taking a break.  Mind you that one only requires the 
good stuff (ie no gui and it's greedy apps) so it won't take too long to bring 
up to speed.  :-)

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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