6 Jul
2020
6 Jul
'20
1:35 p.m.
'Thinking of his new AMD Threadripper 3970x-based processor-powered developer desktop, Torvalds later added that, although he had been concerned about its fan noise it actually works well for him.'
The other Linus has a go at recreating this build: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kua9cY8q_EI>. He did a full kernel compile in about 3½ minutes.
I remember a full build of a 2.0.3x kernel on my Pentium 100 taking something like 4 hours... :-) Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/