<html><head></head><body>I don't see how a vm could be faster than bare iron. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 1, 2020 4:02:44 PM EDT, Steve Litt via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Sun, 31 May 2020 23:50:32 -0400<br>Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On 5/31/20 9:30 PM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> Gentoo is interesting, but all my computers are old; second or<br> third hand. <br></blockquote><br>As are all mine. Your point? :)<br></blockquote><br>Depending on how old, initial compilation takes more than a day on old<br>computers. Even daily updates take awhile on old computers.<br><br>I wonder if there's a way to do the initial compilations on a VM, where<br>they're very fast, and then rsync the results to root on the iron<br>machine?<br><br>SteveT<br><br>Steve Litt <br>May 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques<br> of the Successful Technologist<br><a href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques">http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques</a><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>"no government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interests of the few.” - John Dewey</body></html>