Hi Kev. I would agree, that 30 would be a lot, but if the room has 30 machines, then why not ? At the end of the day, we may just end up doing 6-7 machines anyways, though i would really like to go into the double digits decimal. Cheers Szemir
On December 5, 2004 09:53, Kevin Anderson wrote: > The Gentoo boot CDs have it on them as well... > > 30 machines is a lot. Personally, if I was to do it, I'd plan for maybe > 5-7. Then I'd have volunteers set up the 5-7 boxes with DistCC, and then > show the time to emerge something reasonably big. Perhaps the kernel. But > even 5-7 boxes existing purely to compile on is a lot in a room which is > short on power... > > Kev. > > On Saturday 04 December 2004 12:54, bogi wrote: > > Yes. > > And there is a special knoppix with distcc on it configured to run. The > > idea is, to boot one of the computer rooms at devry, having 30odd > > computers in it, while the distcc explanation presentation procedes, and > > once we have distcc running, on a whole room full of computers, the > > gentoo presentation can start, and a stage 1 can be presented, hopefully > > within one hour. We might want to run a full dress rehearsal a week > > before the event, to make sure everything is hunky dory [ > > http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hun2.htm ]. > > > > After this, we can retain the technology .... and do some more compile > > presentations, first to spring to mind, is kernel, in several different > > ways, gnome, kde, and indeed any of the big packages. > > > > Cheers > > Szemir > > > > On December 4, 2004 10:53, Kevin Anderson wrote: > > > Not Necessarily. > > > > > > I think there are two things being discussed here. The first is "How > > > to get gentoo installed on a single system in under an hour" The > > > second is "How to speed up Gentoo emerges with DistCC". > > > > > > They could be combined, but the truth is, There would need to be ALOT > > > of machines before I could see Gentoo up and running in less than an > > > hour via compiles. If I was going to do it in less than an hour, I'd > > > use the install media to install from, including the Kernel, and I'd > > > install X and KDE from packages. Which would mean that nothing was > > > compiled at all. > > > > > > I'm good with either option, but I think there should be some line > > > between the two, because they aren't necessarily related. > > > > > > Personally, I think DistCC would have more value, firstly because it > > > rocks even for people not running Gentoo. And secondly, because it's > > > fast and easy, and it's really neat to see it working. Frankly, I was > > > shocked that I could have it running in my house on my 3 main machines > > > in less than an hour, and particularly since one is a Celeron, (where > > > any compile totally sucks) the benefits were enormous. This benefits > > > anyone doing anything that requires compiling on any distro. Aaron has > > > mentioned IceCream before, and from the sound of it, it's a step > > > better, because it resolves crosscompiling, and different versions of > > > GCC, and stuff, but DistCC works great for me. > > > > > > I'd be happy to do either. Or IPcop, though it was suggested that > > > IPcop would work better as a whole session one afternoon. > > > > > > Kev. > > > > > > On Friday 03 December 2004 23:48, Nick W wrote: > > > > On December 3, 2004 10:47 pm, Shawn wrote: > > > > > I think that was the distcc presentation... > > > > > > > > > > Can we do a quickie on distcc in Jan? Would someone volunteer for > > > > > this? (cuz I don't know enough to do it...) > > > > > > > > distcc and fast gentoo installs go hand in hand... > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
