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1. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2014 22:18:34 EST Jeff Ratliff

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   • Joshua Judson Rosen
   Actually I probably did drop some stuff on 12/25. I'll just have to do better next year.
2. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2014 22:00:26 EST Jeff Ratliff

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   • Jon Kulp
   Doing it in a VM this time has made things easier. Also they now support building all 64 bit, which makes life easier.
3. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2014 21:51:40 EST Jeff Ratliff

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   • Jon Kulp
   Yes. Did Bash a little while ago. I'm on Libtool now. I'm halfway through the final set of builds. Probably finish tomorrow.
4. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2014 21:46:46 EST Jeff Ratliff

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   • Joshua Judson Rosen
   Wow. I was totally going to celebrate Gravmass and forgot. Do I still have time to drop some stuff?
5. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2014 21:45:11 EST Jeff Ratliff

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   • X11R5
   I'm afraid I'll probably never be many. It would be nice, though.
6. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2014 21:44:31 EST Jeff Ratliff

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   • quix0r
   It's a lot easier since you start from a host distribution. Mostly it's just following instructions, but you have to follow exactly.
7. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 23:40:43 EST Jeff Ratliff

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   • Jon Kulp
   I'll hold onto the dream then. I've never seen the 3D in those things.
8. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 22:56:09 EST Jeff Ratliff

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   • Joshua Judson Rosen
   I did my first LFS build in 2000 though, so I'm sure I probably used GCC 2.95 then.
9. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 22:55:21 EST Jeff Ratliff

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   GCC test suite is done. Completed in 2 hours 49 minutes. Roughly 200K tests, 1 unexpected failure. Good enough for me.
10. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 22:51:16 EST Jeff Ratliff

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    • Joshua Judson Rosen
    I remember reading GCC 4 was a pretty significant rewrite with a lot of improvements. No idea how it would compare to the 2.x series.
11. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 22:22:29 EST Jeff Ratliff

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    • Jon Kulp
    I check on it occasionally. It's the longest part of the whole build, but then you want your compiler to work right. :)
12. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 22:05:57 EST Jeff Ratliff

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    GCC test suite has been running 2 hours. Nearly finished I think. #LinuxFromScratch
13. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 20:39:29 EST Jeff Ratliff

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    • reality
    I usually try to finish a book, but with Stephenson I have to keep at it or I'll forget what's going on.
14. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 20:38:33 EST Jeff Ratliff

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    "GCC now uses C++ as its implementation language." (from GCC docs) Does this seem nuts to anyone else?
15. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 20:37:19 EST Jeff Ratliff

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    " Webmestres. ARRETEZ DE TRONQUER LES FLUX RSS. #merci
16. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 20:35:03 EST Jeff Ratliff

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    You'll notice increased responsiveness. And your posts will actually get to instances that have shaky internet connections.
17. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 20:23:44 EST Jeff Ratliff

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    • Jon Kulp
    It's funny that although I'm not a big Stephenson fan I've still read about 3000 pages of his work. :)
18. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 20:22:36 EST Jeff Ratliff

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    • Jon Kulp
    I thought Cryptonomicon was good, and strong on the historical fiction. I wonder how much of it was based on fact.
19. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 20:18:32 EST Jeff Ratliff

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    • Brian van den Broek
    Of course "The Diamond Age" is a good stand-alone book and it's only ~500 pages.
20. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 20:15:15 EST Jeff Ratliff

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    • Brian van den Broek
    He's definitely worth a try, though. He tells good stories and ties everything together eventually.

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