It should work well as a server for you. Once you have it built, Gentoo will run that hardware faster then any binary distro would. I run my Web / E-Mail / CVS / Development server on a PII - 400 using Gentoo. I just maxed out the ram (500 Meg) and it runs great. Good luck with it :)
Cheers, Trevor Nick W said: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
