>On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:38:27 +0000 >Andrew Benton <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
But after you get through the build phase, few things out there beat LFS on a resource constrained system. So, it'll take an eternity to build, but will give you the most bang your hardware can make. -- Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
