i have installed gentoo on a 128M ibm thinkpad 570. the only annoyance is that gentoo is built for pIII by default and i had to recompile X. it only took 28 hrs.
- erik On Tue Feb 14 03:49:05 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ron is right: supposedly `portable' programs are full of gcc-specific stuff. > much of it is fairly silly. if you google, somewhere there's a description > of > the unbelievable mess connected with strcmp and strncmp semi-builtins. > staggering. > > it's much easier just to regard a gcc-based environment as another > world (which is what is, anyway) and let it be self-contained (as well > as self-centred). at least plan 9 doesn't care what you do in user > space, unlike some other systems. > > mind you, i'd be happier if linux could run its own programs. > on a 192mbyte machine with an off-the-cd (errr. dvd) installation, > apt-get can't update anything because it has exhausted the mmap mappings. > i'm exhausted too. i'll just reinstall. i'll try ubuntu this time, that > seems to work better. >
