Hi GREGORY,
* MARTINSON, GREGORY, Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 2:21:26 PM: > I am going to be bullheaded and take an old machine Pentium 166 with > 48 Megs of memory and make it work as a home server (samba, cups and > ftp as well as maybe a music player). I won't be installing tons of > software on it, but I do want to eek our every last ounce of > performance from an old beast. > Do any of you have general tips, hints or things to avoid in > developing such a system? I have a pentium-75 notebook with 14mb ram running with gentoo, it's generally no problem. You may want to use distcc, if you have any other gentoo-systems (network-wise) nearby. Perhaps you may even tar an image together and do any emerges on another machine and rsync the changes over (I am doing that for my notebook, as emerge sync alone takes about 12 hours (not the sync, but updating portage cache)). If you have any chance, put more memory in. > [...] > Anyone know of a simple low-resource window manager? I am using Openbox after reading http://www.windowmaker.org/features-performance.html > What compilation make.conf settings should I try? use -Os (optimizing for size) instead of -O2 or -O3 > Thanks to any and all responses! Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
