On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:14:27 -0200 Rodrigo Marcondes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Fellas, > > My name is Rodrigo, and I'm a Computer Science student on Brazil. > I'm starting the Linux From Scratch 7.0, and liking the way things are > going. > I'm still preparing the environment for developing, and reading about most > of the stuff on Linux that I have to comprehend to make a better use of the > book. I have experience with Ubuntu mostly, but I want to try an distro > much less expensive in the means of processing, I'm going to try using it > on a 1.7GHZ notebook, a really limited one. I would say that if processing power is limited LFS is not a good choice. I use LFS on my netbook but I wouldn't like to use it as my primary machine. Installing some things (gcc, Firefox, Webkit) take hours. If there was some problem that made the build fail, it could take days to try several times. I develop my build scripts on my main desktop machine and only set them to run on the netbook when I'm confident that they're going to work; that way it can just be left all day. Another problem is space. It only has a small SSD so my root partition is 4GB which means I have to stop half way to strip all the binaries to save space. > So any suggestions would be of truly inspiration. A faster computer makes a big difference. In my experience more cores help, but so does more RAM and particularly more on chip cache. You can't have too much on chip cache. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
