> Have you looked at Gentoo? It's definitely not a beginner's distro, but=
> you can install as much or as little as you want. > = > And it is supposedly very fast, because you can compile EVERYTHING from= > source (with local optimizations). > = Isn't compiling major packages like xfree and KDE takes a lot of time? Do they get some kind of configuration so that one can run gentooConfigure and get himself the executables or is he supposed to delve into READMEs = and these sort of stuff? What about dependencies like pacakge1 has to be compiled with gcc 2.95 while package2 must have a library that should be compiled with gcc 3.1? = Am I making things more complicated then what they are? Can the answers = be obtained quickly and easily from their site or by doing a fast search in the web? Does someone here actually run a full gentoo distribution? What about A light one? > www.gentoo.org > = > HTH, > = > Martin Polley > Technical Communicator > http://www.surf-com.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 > Mobile: (053) 864-280 > ICQ 15617901 > = > = > = > -----Original Message----- > From: Ishai Parasol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 4:16 PM > To: Linux Mailing-List > Subject: lite distributions > = > = > Hi > = > I'm planing a litlle home network with a gateway & firewall on the firs= t > box, and then 3 old boxes (pentium 100 or so with 500mb hd) that suppos= e > to serve http, mail, ftp, etc for the outside world. each box should > have no more than apache+ftp+ssh or postfix+ftp+ssh without any X or > other stuff. What I don't know is which distribution should I use for > the boxes - I need somthing that will work with this kind of hardware > and disk size and still be able to compile and run the latest versions > of apache, postfix etc. I'm doing this for learning purposes and I don'= t > expect too many hits on those servers so performance should'nt be a > problem. > = > Any good advices ? > = > Thanks, > Ishai. > = > = > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the wor= d > "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo > unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > = > =FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FFTo un= subscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > = -- = Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t -- Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
