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- From: s891961@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Peter David Cupit)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: No patchlevel 3.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.111947.16533@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 16:19:47 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.215429.7866@umr.edu> <1992Sep8.002147.790@wam.umd.edu>
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
- Lines: 26
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- joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Sep7.215429.7866@umr.edu> dminer@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner) writes:
- >>wait a little (~100K? for that one). Now, I got pl4 and ready for
- >>an all night compile (it takes over 5 hrs on my machine.. :( )
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- >Along the lines of my last questions, about the progress of Linux over
- >the Summer, I've been seeing a lot of this (5 hours to recompile
-
-
- I am using the MCC 0.97pl2 release (which is amazing thanks all),
- and I only have 5mb of ram in a 386 25, it took perhaps half an
- hour to compile the kernel. Well less than one hour anyway.
-
- Perhaps patch levels abovee two are a lot bigger?
-
- Btw I now have a terminal in the lounge so I can use linux in the
- add breaks! :) Cool.
-
- Oh, does anyone out there have a tvi925 or tvi920 termcap that is
- know to be perfect? I have a vi problem on the terminal which
- could not be linux (I don't think).
-
- Thanks,
- Peter.
-