Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:31:27 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> 
>> http://xkcd.com/456/
>>
>> Mmm... I did this.
>>
>> Do you have *any idea* how long it takes to compile the Linux kernel? 
> 
> It depends.
> 
> On a lot of things, like how fast your system is, whether it's multi-core 
> (if made with -j that will do parallel compilation, speeding things up a 
> bit), how much memory you have, how fast your disk I/O channel is, memory 
> channel, etc.
> 
>> I
>> mean, damn, how *big* is it?? 
> 
> It depends.
> 
> On a lot of things, like which modules you compile into the kernel, 
> compile as kernel modules, or don't compile.  Also on which options you 
> actually enable.
> 
>> I thought the final binary was only a few
>> KB in size...
> 
> It depends.
> 
> On my 64-bit system, the kernel is about 2.1 MB in size, but that doesn't 
> include 108 MB of modules for this specific kernel.
> 
>> Oddly, X11 also takes forever.
> 
> It's a lot of code, video drivers for many different types of cards.
> 
>> (It's no surprise however that Firefox and OpenOffice are slow as hell.
>> Oh, and KDE... *very* slow!)
>>
>> Damn, I really don't know why the hell I did that...
> 
> Well, now you've learned something - LFS does take time. :-)
> 
> Jim


Hey Jim, sounds like you are into the LFS stuff as well.

I'm going through the book "Building Embedded Linux Systems" and they 
refer to CLFS quite a bit.  Seems like those guys made the earth move a 
bit -;)



Tom

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