The wrong direction
The wrong direction
Posted Jun 9, 2014 15:12 UTC (Mon) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)In reply to: The wrong direction by Duncan
Parent article: Schaller: Preparing the ground for the Fedora Workstation
It's mainstream Linux distro's (and user's) weird insistence on prebuilt binaries in this day and age of ever increasing CPU power such that building from sources is now trivial, that triggers most of the limitations and problems listed above.
Building a Linux kernel (never mind any of the userland stuff running on it) takes tens of minutes on ext4fs on rotary storage with a 2.2GHz amd64 system with no memory pressure (I launched the build at 15:43; as of 16:11 it's partway through drivers/), so I contend that there is in fact nothing weird about wanting prepackaged binaries.