4 1/2 years ago, a group of merry friends, made a pact. It was a rash decision in my opinion, however the four of us (Byron, Kevin, Dave and I) always intended to keep our word. I’m glad to say that this particular pact went through as planned. See the entry Brotherhood of the Stag…

Finally did the “emerge -uva system && emerge -uva world” on the old server to recompile everything to GCC 4.1.1. Will it improve performance? Unlikely. GCC for Intel x86 Coppermines (Pentium 3s) was pretty stable to begin with, but I just had to do it. -T