Good luck. If you have any questions, there are many gentoo users on the list. And you know... I've set up gentoo on a pentium 166 with 56 megs of ram, stage 1.
With 64 megs of ram, dont expect to get open office working.. I would suggest abiword. And for a web browser, firebird. --mat On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 17:43, CMB wrote: > For the new year, I am setting up my youngest son with his own machine. > He is 9, requires some basic wordpioc and drawing, but mainly requires > the ability to play flash games. > > Of course you know it is going to be a Linux system as I am a proud > Linux Bigot and I absolutely hate how easy it is for my son to screw up > a machine with n-teen different screen savers (from the Cartoon Network) > for Win98 that spy back on him. > > Anyhow, I picked up the "new" machine(Dell/350/64) from the CACRC (via > EBAY) for about $20 and a monitor ($25) and started to set up Gentoo "by > the book" last evening around 18:00. > > I chose "Stage 3" install, which more or less means I will select and > compile my kernal (as opposed to Stage 1 - where I'll be building it all > from scratch). Yes, I know I don't get many geek points for a stage 3 > but I am eager to see how better a Gentoo kernal runs against what I > have become used to, namely Mandrake and Debian. > > The experience *is* wonderfully enlightening, easy enough to follow > (even after New Years Celebrations...hick!....), and painfully slow > (with the machine) and probably will be redone with stage 1. (It is > fairly easy, just forgive yourself for small faux-pas!) > > Don't fear the instructions from Gentoo are easy to follow, make sense, > and well worthwhile. > > They simply take time....I am still compiling! > > > > Happy New Year!!! > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
