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|    Nick Boel to Maurice Kinal    |
|    Re: and that song ain't so very far from    |
|    11 Aug 25 19:41:20    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 373.tuxpower@1:154/700 2cffc526       REPLY: 1:153/7001.2989 689a736d       PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/955e50fea Aug 10 2025 GCC 15.1.1       TID: SBBSecho 3.29-Linux master/955e50fea Aug 10 2025 GCC 15.1.1       BBSID: PHARCYDE       CHRS: UTF-8 4       FORMAT: flowed       NOTE: Mozilla Thunderbird       Hey Maurice!              On Mon, Aug 11 2025 17:49:17 -0500, you wrote:              >> Took me about 60 seconds including the reboot               > There is no way that is possible. I am guessing that even a 96       > penguin threadripper would take at least minutes to compile a beefy       > kernel, with modules from hell, as well as gzip them, and then       > archive/compress the entire thing into one tidy package using xz,       > which I believe is still a single threaded app. Sorry but I have to       > call bullshit on this one.              Who said anything about compiling? ;)              "Linux version 6.15.9-arch1-1 (linux@archlinux)" is precompiled before it gets       to me, and I install it with 'pacman', the Archlinux package manager.              It literally takes about 30 seconds to download and install a new kernel. Then       another 30 seconds or so to reboot the VM so the new kernel is used.       Definitely beats watching a single package compile for 4+ hours. Plus, I don't       need every bit of boot-up time and processing power or even special modules or       anything like that, that tinkering with a custom kernel would possibly get me       these days.              Regards,       Nick              ... Sarcasm, because beating people up is illegal.       --- SBBSecho 3.29-Linux        * Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (1:154/700)       SEEN-BY: 50/22 103/705 104/119 105/81 106/201 114/10 120/616 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 128/187 153/757 7001 7715 154/10 30 50 110 700 203/0 218/700       SEEN-BY: 220/20 30 90 221/0 6 226/18 30 44 50 227/114 229/110 114       SEEN-BY: 229/206 300 317 400 426 428 470 664 700 705 240/1120 5832       SEEN-BY: 263/1 266/512 280/464 5003 291/111 292/8125 301/1 310/31       SEEN-BY: 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 460/16 58 256 1124       SEEN-BY: 460/5858 467/888 633/280 712/848 770/1 902/26 2320/105 3634/12       SEEN-BY: 5020/400 8912 5054/30 5075/35       PATH: 154/700 10 280/464 460/58 229/426           |
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