On Saturday 22 November 2003 12:57, Trevor Lauder wrote: > 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 :)
Is there an emerge for xfce? I could go look but Im lazy today. > > 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 -- 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
