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Re:Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-... by cschep on Friday October 30, 2015 @12:48PM (#10478920)
Arch is based on binaries so you don't have to spend hours compiling. Surely Ctrl-C is going to "win" after the 4th hour of just watching X compile! :)
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-... by matejn on Friday October 30, 2015 @01:14PM (#10479073)
Does X really build for so long? It takes about half an hour on my OpenBSD install, with all the base utilities and libraries.
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-... by mahouse on Friday October 30, 2015 @02:08PM (#10479453)
I hope I don't have to explain it depends on the machine.
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-... by matejn on Saturday October 31, 2015 @07:06PM (#10484589)
Yeah, sorry. I forget I'm on an i7 now, albeit a laptop one. It could easily take 8 times that long on something like an Atom or some sort of ARM. Though I wonder how long it takes on a desktop i7 with an SSD.
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