On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 01:33, Johannes Graumann wrote: > This might be a provoking question but I was wondering whether anybody on > the list had tried Gentoo Linux ... I get the impression that the custom > compiling done through this distribution might be the right thing for the > limited resources of a laptop?
The Gentoo people seem to be doing some smart things. However I doubt that Gentoo is suitable for a small machine, the resources to compile a package are vastly greater than those required to just install a .deb. KDE would be unusable on most laptops for Gentoo users as it takes many hours to compile even on new machines. Maybe if you did the build on a bigger machine and then copied the binaries across somehow it would work well. I'm not sure if this is possible though. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
