Naturally a lot depends on the exact hardware specs. Commonly spoken: a
machine like yours was once able to run a Windows 95 - so there can't be
a single reason for not get Gentoo running ;-)
I myself run a couple of pretty old machines (once high quality servers)
with a hundful of customers. You can find everything from tiny mail
servers to rather huge squid proxies. And some even have xfce on it.
So it is doable. You should consider though to not emerge on the P166
but to do that in a faster chroot environment on another box if
possible. I mean EVERYTHING might take ages to compile.
BTW I like to give the old fellas a second chance ... :-)
Am Donnerstag, den 13.01.2005, 09:18 -0700 schrieb Dmitry S. Makovey:
> Hi everybody,
>
> did anybody experiment with putting gentoo on slightly old machine
> (P166/96M) with X support etc?
>
> Here's my background - I've got old machine hanging in the closet and
> my wife insists on making it a plastation for my kid. I'm quite
> hesitant of installing windows on it so I'd like to get linux with
> GUI going on it. I though I'd go with KDrive for X server/client and
> install some educational games from portage/source with minimal
> kernel that shouldn't kill machine (in theory). What I ws looking for
> is if anybody already tried this and what are the problems/delicate
> spots?
>
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