Can’t say I blame you and after playing with a Fedora 41 install, I find out it will no longer support new installs to msdos and/or legacy boot!! The only other PC, that I have, that meets that criteria is my W11 machine, and I know it will not be installed on that machine!! Good luck with your journey into the Linux world!!!
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Really! That is a serious deficiency.
It sounds like Fedora are overdoing the ‘new and modern’ bit with that, and with setting Btrfs default, and probably other things too.
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I really appreciate your commitment to try the LFS! Let’s hope you get it done on bare metal. I might try the LFS some day but don’t have time to try it in near future. If I’d try it, I would go straight to bare metal and not to VM as per your findings. Btw I just updated my GCC on Gentoo, took ~1h30mins. Not too bad😁
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My thinking also, and a lot of other distros, are headed in the same direction!!!
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OH, it will be bare metal!! Have to order some ram from Amazon before I do anything!!!
What is GCC version for Gentoo now?
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sys-devel/gcc-13.3.1
LFS compiles GCC 14.2.0
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Yeah, I was on the very edge when using Arch. It’s easier to stay back and let others to take a hit 
LFS is another beast and there’s only few of you brawe / crazy out there 
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I’m going to do it or die trying!!! I have had it to the CLI but that is only when the real compiling begins with BLFS!! Wish my old Asus mobo was still up and running, or find a used desktop PC that has a i7 or maybe a amd ryzen installed.
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@ihasama
I have a question and you may even no the answer. When compiling LFS, it has, in most packages a test check to run, all I see at the end is what passed or failed, do you think LFS can be compiled, without running the tests. The tests for binutils and glibc are flagged as critical.
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I have read the LFS book online and it said something that you should run the tests for all packages. Glibc is probably the most important to test but it takes time. On desktop it’s not an issue, just let it test at night but on laptop you probably should not test the big packages because of the heat. I don’t know, just my hunch. Last night my laptop was on balcony when it updated @world
We have snow here atm
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There are cooling pads for laptops. They are fans, not refrigerators. Would work best if laptop has vents underneath.
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@ihasama
OK that I know, but do the tests add to the build of the package? One creates the makefile and then runs make and then the make check and then the make install!!!
Does Gentoo run tests when it compiles a package?
Are you at the North Pole, way too hot here for anything like snow!!!
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I doubt it.
You can maybe work out what test does by studying the Makefile for the test.
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Only one way to find out!!!
Do a LFS compile and only do the critical flagged tests!!!
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I doubt but can’t say for sure.
I think it depends how the ebuild is written. Haven’t bothered to check any ebuild files. There is some wiki pages for ebuild writing and you can make the ebuild to test during compiling.
Not too far, I live in Finland
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About laptop heat, my laptop with the new SSD is hotter than when it had the original SSD. I plan to drill some holes to the bottom panel.
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Good idea, but keep metal fragments away from PC boards… maybe yours is plastic?
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It’s plastic
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WOW!!! A fairy tale land I only read about in the National Geographics, like Australia!!! A long ways from Arkansas, USA!!!
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