Am Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 01:10:46PM +0000 schrieb spareproject776: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 03:49:24PM +0300, Dex Conner wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > So I've found a Thinkpad X200 online and I'm thinking of buying it for > > libreboot purposes. Do you think the P8600 cpu can handle all the > > compiling on gentoo? For the record, I don't have any of the "big stuff" > > like KDE, GNOME, Firefox (all I have is Tor Browser [which I don't > > compile], dwl and some terminal programs like neomutt and profanity). > > Surely, I wouldn't be spending 5 hours to do small upgrades, > > right?..right? > > > > Thank you > > -- > > Dex > > libreboot cant microcode updates, pretty much all dead now > > ie cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*
I actually disable all the mitigations on my machines. Those issues are mostly relevant for shared hosters and cloud providers which require tight isolation of their processes. For a personal machine at home, those scenarios are mostly irrelevant, unless you click on every link you encounter. I prefer performance. Besides, could it be possible that the P8600 isn’t even vulnerable to Spectre & co, being so old? @Topic: I‘ve been migrating my X250 (Broadwell i5, 2/4 threads) away from Gentoo because build times kept creeping up. If you want to play and experiment and do upgrades only once in a while, go for it. But I’d also recommend binary packages and/or using distcc. Back in the day I had Gentoo running on a puny netbook with Atom N450 (1/2 threads, with a quarter of the P8600’s single-thread performance) and 2 Gigs of RAM, so packages were usually built on a beefier machine. I even built firefox on it once just for giggles, it took a day to build. But didn’t start any faster. I’ve been using bin packages whenever possible anyway, as I didn’t see any advantage over the effort. -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. Why don’t shepherds fall asleep during inventory-taking?
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