On 1/3/2007 8:14 PM, Todd Walton wrote:
On 1/2/07, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A couple of days ago I installed GnuCash, so I thought that'd be a nice test. I recompiled it just now. A simple command: 'emerge gnucash' (though I put 'time' before it). It took 28 minutes and 25 seconds. Is that really so bad? When's the last time you decided you needed GnuCash and damn it all you need it NOW! Or any package? Anything that's going to take much longer than that will have a precompiled binary available.
I use Gentoo on several systems, some desktops and some servers. Compiling Openoffice takes somewhere around 10 hours on a 3GHz system and about 3GB of disk space during the compile. I'm guessing that's to hold all the built modules prior to final linking.
I run Postfix as a public service on some of these, all behind firewalls. I'd have much more trepidation running Apache/PHP or something like that. Occasionally something does break after an upgrade/recompile. But there's _lots_ of help available on Gentoo's forums. Usually the problem's been solved before, same as with any other major distribution. And if I can't fix it easily, I'll downgrade to where it was before and wait for someone in the forums to say how they fixed it. I've never had a system get so hosed I couldn't fix it via ssh.
Why Gentoo? It was fun and a challenge at first, something to tinker with. With a little experience it's not too hard to manage a handful of systems. There seems to be a modest speed advantage in having built everything (including all the libraries) with the -march flag set for the processor being used.
Karl Cunningham -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
