A picture of bowls of eggs, flour, sugar, water, butter an sugar wit the text:

Happy 34th Birthday, Linux!

Here’s your cake, go ahead and compile it yourself.

Edit: fixed the text in the image to “34th”

  • ladicius@lemmy.world
    91·
    3 days ago

    I never ever had to compile Linux, not even once. Always installed from the distributions website and was done.

    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      Doing a stage 1 gentoo, or LFS can be tedious but fun. When CPUs were a lot slower, getting the whole distro compiled under all of compiler optimizations that you could muster would actually make a difference in terms of performance.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        This is what I was told by some turkeys on the internet back in the day, so I dutifully attempted a from-scratch Gentoo compilation on my ancient old 1ghz Celeron laptop. I don’t think it ever finished. Insofar as I’m aware it’s still compiling to this very day.

        Later on I considered if the architecture of my commodity P3 based Celeron machine was materially any different from the oodles of others in the world, and I concluded that it wasn’t. The hell with it.

        • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          The lack of cache on the Celeron CPUs really hurt performance, even if you could overclock. And if you ever touched swap on the spinning rust, it only compounded.

          • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            The Coppermine based one I had packed 128 kB of L2 cache and had the same 16 kB L1 cache as its full-fat Pentium sibling. The Pentium version had double the L2 cache at 256 kB, but it’s not like mine had none.

            It was the OG P2 based (Covington) Celerons that had no L2 cache at all. If I remember right it was only this very first generation which was cacheless, but people just never let that go.