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    From Retro Guy@retroguy@novabbs.com to rocksolid.programming on Tue Dec 3 19:17:46 2024
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    Not really about programming, but not about Linux either so... (who
    didn't add a .bsd to rocksolid.* anyway!)?

    I've been compiling Waterfox in FreeBSD for about the past 9 hours or
    so. I hope I live long enough to see if it works.

    (I'm probably doing it wrong)
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    Retro Guy
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  • From George Musk@grgmusk@skiff.com to rocksolid.programming on Wed Dec 4 10:36:59 2024
    From Newsgroup: rocksolid.programming

    On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 19:17:46 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

    I've been compiling Waterfox in FreeBSD for about the past 9 hours or
    so. I hope I live long enough to see if it works.

    Sounds long. What kind of hardware or VM are you doing it on?
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  • From Retro Guy@retroguy@novabbs.com to rocksolid.programming on Wed Dec 4 11:08:30 2024
    From Newsgroup: rocksolid.programming

    On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 10:36:59 +0000, George Musk wrote:

    On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 19:17:46 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

    I've been compiling Waterfox in FreeBSD for about the past 9 hours or
    so. I hope I live long enough to see if it works.

    Sounds long. What kind of hardware or VM are you doing it on?

    I think it's because the install is new and all the required tools need
    to be compiled also. I woke up to a Y/N prompt for something, so it's
    still going :)

    I also see my ports dir is now 55G.

    It's a KVM on a reasonably fast system with lots of memory. Local
    desktop. I'm just playing around with FreeBSD right now to get a feel
    for it.
    --
    Retro Guy
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  • From Retro Guy@retroguy@novabbs.com to rocksolid.programming on Wed Dec 4 20:38:03 2024
    From Newsgroup: rocksolid.programming

    On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 11:08:30 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

    On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 10:36:59 +0000, George Musk wrote:

    On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 19:17:46 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

    I've been compiling Waterfox in FreeBSD for about the past 9 hours or
    so. I hope I live long enough to see if it works.

    Sounds long. What kind of hardware or VM are you doing it on?

    I think it's because the install is new and all the required tools need
    to be compiled also. I woke up to a Y/N prompt for something, so it's
    still going :)

    I also see my ports dir is now 55G.

    It's a KVM on a reasonably fast system with lots of memory. Local
    desktop. I'm just playing around with FreeBSD right now to get a feel
    for it.

    I'm taking bets as to when this will complete :) (not yet)
    --
    Retro Guy
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  • From Retro Guy@retroguy@novabbs.com to rocksolid.programming on Wed Dec 4 22:08:14 2024
    From Newsgroup: rocksolid.programming

    On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 20:38:03 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

    On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 11:08:30 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

    On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 10:36:59 +0000, George Musk wrote:

    On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 19:17:46 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

    I've been compiling Waterfox in FreeBSD for about the past 9 hours or
    so. I hope I live long enough to see if it works.

    Sounds long. What kind of hardware or VM are you doing it on?

    I think it's because the install is new and all the required tools need
    to be compiled also. I woke up to a Y/N prompt for something, so it's
    still going :)

    I also see my ports dir is now 55G.

    It's a KVM on a reasonably fast system with lots of memory. Local
    desktop. I'm just playing around with FreeBSD right now to get a feel
    for it.

    I'm taking bets as to when this will complete :) (not yet)

    and... DONE!
    --
    Retro Guy
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