Ya well from some of the messages i too think that but maintainability is a concern (want to be able to update OS & packages without too much hassle - missing support files etc as i'e found with m'drake 8.2).
dave. ps have a bigger drive too (15gig). On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:14, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:30, Dave Lilley wrote: > > i'd be in on this. > > > > got a 2gig hd (spare) and a p200 96meg ram (my pc). > > I'm a bit worried that you may find that updating and generally maintaining a > Gentoo machine with that speed of processor would be somewhat, shall we say, > tiresome. To completely update the base of KDE on a PII/400 takes from > Saturday morning until some time on Wednesday. While we will be able to > compile applications for you on the much faster machines which folk are > bringing, I'm a bit concerned that we might be landing you with a machine > which is - in practice - unmaintainable. > > What do others think? > > > where & when ??? > Not known yet, depends how many people want to come. > > -- > C. S. >
