Philip Webb wrote:
060101 Chris White wrote:
On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How slow is too slow for Gentoo? I'm using Gentoo on a 233MHz laptop.
Install did take over a week, I'll admit.
One of the main factor people consider is time ...
... Time is the main factor that draws people away.
Exactly ! I really don't have "over a week" to spend updating a back-up box !
Esp as I have only 1 monitor, so can't use the regular machine meantime !
Of the four machines I have, three are updated over ssh, no monitor at
all. Rigs are below. I can even start the updates and then shutdown my
main rig, that has the monitor. I login and start a screen session,
then start the updates. If I plan to shutdown my main rig for some
reason, I do the -f option first since the souces are on my main rig.
If I need to shutdown my main rig, I just exit the screen session and
logout. I can login later and re-attach the session to see how it's going.
Maybe there is something different about my old Compaq but I don't think
it would take me that long, even with one CPU. My install went pretty
quick and I did compile everything. I even did a emerge -ev world to
make sure.
Maybe I just hate Mandrake to much. LOL Please don't tell me I have to
install Mandrake ever again. PLEASE !!!!!
Also keep this in mind, "good things come to those who wait." To me,
Gentoo is worth waiting for.
Dale
:-)
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I have four rigs:
1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two
80GB hard drives. Named Smoker
2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.
Named Swifty
3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB
drive. Named Pokey
4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB
SCSI drive. Named Putput
All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
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