1hr+ for a general update* (following the guide. Pre-kernel)

On a more serious note, gentoo is fun… On competent hardware. This is a 4 core Celeron N2940 with 4gb of RAM.

*emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --changed-use @world is too long to type…

  • sleepmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Gentoo is fantastic for learning. It forced me to get intimate with internals I had no exposure to before. And I learned a lot of little tricks from it that accelerated my career. Or at least made it easier.

    I’d try to find something a bit more beefy if you plan on compiling almost everything. And once you get it where you like it, take a backup or system image you can restore to. Because when it breaks, it’ll be a lot less painful to start over.

  • gamer@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    Wtf kinda thinkpad is that? No nipple, massive bezels, and rounded corners. Are you sure this isn’t some weird Temu counterfeit?

  • geneno@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    Roughly 8 hours ago, that means you might just now be struggling with a nw manager to get a LAN IP assigned, or worse, a wifi network logged in.

    Do you have a gui yet?

  • TimeNaan@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Ohh it’s that thinkpad netbook. I hated that thing when I got it as my first thinkpad, it’s absurdly slow.

  • gi1242@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    lol. i used Gentoo for 5 years or so. it’s the only distribution I don’t recommend.

    it assumes you have hours of CPU time to waste, and hours of your time to dispatch-config afterwords.

    do Debian or arch.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Time to figure out distcc so you can offload the compilation to a faster machine.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        I think that’s more for when you have multiple machines (that would use the same USE flags) and you only want to have to compile once. OP’s use-case re: binary packages would be more about getting them from somebody else (i.e. a public binhost that already exists) so he doesn’t have to compile at all.

  • toynbee@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    bash.org is gone and I can’t find a reliable way to search its replacements, but there was a quote on there that said something like “I love Gentoo. You can sit back and it’ll look like you’re a badass hacker but in reality you’re just installing xchess or something.”

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      bash.org is gone and I can’t find a reliable way to search its replacements

      https://bash-org-archive.com/

      https://www.google.com/search?q=site%253Abash-org-archive.com+gentoo

      That turns up four quotes with “gentoo”.

      The closest, I think, is:

      https://bash-org-archive.com/?464385

      <@insomnia> it only takes three commands to install Gentoo
<@insomnia> cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /
dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update &&
. /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/
bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab &&
emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make
menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome
mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/
grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/
grub.conf && grub && init 6
<@insomnia> that's the first one

      I don’t know about Google’s site coverage, but it turns up one test quote that I remember:

      https://bash-org-archive.com/?5273

      <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds
to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in
my apartment it is.

      looks further

      This is supposed to be the entire archive:

      https://archive.org/details/bash.org.txt

      Grabbing it and unpacking it gives me 21,096 text files, one for each bash.org quote.

      $ grep -i gentoo * -l|wc -l
13
$

      So Googlebot’s index of bash-org-archive.com probably isn’t complete; it got a quarter of the hits. However…

      $ grep -C500 -i gentoo *

      …doesn’t appear to turn up anything that looks like your quote.

      My guess is that you might have seen it on another site.

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
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        11 hours ago

        Your diligence is appreciated. I’m familiar with bash-org-archive and qdb.lol; the problem is searching them. I hadn’t considered looking through them locally, but it’s a good idea.

        Admittedly I am fallible, so it isn’t impossible I saw the quote elsewhere, but more likely I’m misremembering the quote referencing Gentoo. Perhaps it was about Arch or even just generally about compiling software. I’m pretty sure the quote referenced xchess, so perhaps that would be more helpful to grep.

        Either way, thank you for making the effort to find it.

  • 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 hours ago

    That netbook is not what I would consider a ThinkPad. And distro wise, is crunchbang still a thing? Something simple with openbox or max xfce would probably be a smart choice. This thing won’t be fun for builds or other compute heavy tasks. For browsing the web and chats it’s probably fine

  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I just run updates overnight and its never an issue. I’m also running Gentoo on my 5800X3D with 64GB RAM so compilation is generally fast.