On Saturday 22 November 2003 12:19, Trevor Lauder wrote: > Nick W said: > > Well, it worked so far...just needs a kernel now. woohoo! It actually > > wasn't > > even that painful... ~40 hrs for stage 1&2 to compile isnt bad > > considering the machine its on. I just hope it doesnt take 567 tries to > > get the kernel in. Back to work, thanx again. > > Is this a server machine you are buidling? I ask because if you plan on > compiling XFree, Qt, KDE, GTK & Gnome on it and it took ~40 hours for > stage 1 & 2 it would probably take at least a week to compile all 5 of > those packages (Probably more actually). If you are going to need a GUI > on it, I would recommend XFCE (http://www.xfce.org). It's quickly > becoming the best lightweight desktop environment out there.
Yeah it looks pretty cool. I havent decided on X or no X yet. The machine is being upgraded to a AMD k6-2 450 from 166, but basically its gonna be a light-load web server for me to play with. Thanks for the heads up. > > Cheers, > > Trevor > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca -- Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
