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		nova22033 on May 16, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers... >And since nobody is still able to compile things from scratch Is is true that we had better security when we had to "compile everything from scratch" whatever that means? Did people compile the OS from scratch?

acheron on May 16, 2018 [–]

Did people compile the OS from scratch?

...yes. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makeworld.html

P.S., make sure you have a spare couple days before running make buildworld on a 150 MHz Pentium.

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