Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
060101 Chris White wrote: On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:35, C. Beamer wrote: Fedora: 3.45 *Gentoo: 3.75* Mandriva: 3.70 Suse: 3.40 Ubuntu: 3.90 Word of advice, things like this are generally flawed. Quite true, but I believe CB's point was simply that Gentoo is up there with the other

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread michael
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Philip Webb wrote: 060101 Chris White wrote: On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:35, C. Beamer wrote: Fedora: 3.45 *Gentoo: 3.75* Mandriva: 3.70 Suse: 3.40 Ubuntu: 3.90 Word of advice, things like this are generally flawed. Quite true, but I believe CB's point was simply

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Chris White
On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How slow is too slow for Gentoo? I'm using Gentoo on a 233MHz laptop. It's not fast, but it's perfectly adequate. Install did take over a week, I'll admit. I'm curious because I seem to do a lot of squeezing the most out of

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 06:22:14 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious because I seem to do a lot of squeezing the most out of underpowered computers, and Gentoo has been my friend in these projects. I would like to know what conditions are not well suited to Gentoo. I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How slow is too slow for Gentoo? I'm using Gentoo on a 233MHz laptop. It's not fast, but it's perfectly adequate. Install did take over a week, I'll admit. I'm curious because I seem to do a lot of squeezing the most out of underpowered computers, and Gentoo has been

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
060101 Chris White wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How slow is too slow for Gentoo? I'm using Gentoo on a 233MHz laptop. Install did take over a week, I'll admit. One of the main factor people consider is time ... ... Time is the main factor that draws people

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: 060101 Chris White wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How slow is too slow for Gentoo? I'm using Gentoo on a 233MHz laptop. Install did take over a week, I'll admit. One of the main factor people consider is time ... ... Time is

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread C. Beamer
Philip Webb wrote: 060101 Chris White wrote: On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:35, C. Beamer wrote: Fedora: 3.45 *Gentoo: 3.75* Mandriva: 3.70 Suse: 3.40 Ubuntu: 3.90 Word of advice, things like this are generally flawed. Quite true, but I believe CB's point was simply that

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Darryl Wagoner
Greetings, I am new to Gentoo user. I have been using Linux since slackware was the only distro. I had been using Red Hat for many years until Red Hat until they out grow the desktop users. I tried Mandrake for a while and found it was a pain to upgrade applications or install new applications

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:50:42 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Exactly ! I really don't have over a week to spend updating a back-up box ! Esp as I have only 1 monitor, so can't use the regular machine meantime ! What's wrong with using ssh and screen? -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
060101 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:50:42 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I really don't have over a week to spend updating a back-up box ! Esp as I have only 1 monitor, so can't use the regular machine meantime ! What's wrong with using ssh and screen? I don't have a home network,

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:40:55 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: What's wrong with using ssh and screen? I don't have a home network, just 2 machines + 1 monitor. There's also only 1 ADSL connection, so I can't use the Internet. No, I'm not going out to buy more hardware. Am I missing

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 01 January 2006 19:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: No, I'm not going out to buy more hardware. Am I missing something ? A cable at least, a cable and two cheap NICs at most :) Networking the two would enable you to use the second machine as a backup server, reducing the risk of

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 14:41:28 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Really, some of us believe computers are working machines, not toys, we try to keep our systems simple, reliable useful. Which is why I mentioned that by networking the two, you could also use the second machine as a backup server. I do

[gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2005-12-31 Thread C. Beamer
Hello and Happy New Year to all, I am so enamoured with Gentoo that I couldn't resist passing on this bit of trivia. O'Reilly recently published a book called Linux Desktop Pocket Reference. The first chapter is available for viewing on the O'Reilly website and in that chapter the author rated,

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2005-12-31 Thread Chris White
On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:35, C. Beamer wrote: Fedora: 3.45 *Gentoo: 3.75* Mandriva: 3.70 Suse: 3.40 Ubuntu: 3.90 Word of advice, things like this are generally flawed. The best distro for your needs is the one that best suits what you expect your system to do. Chris White