I've only got the one box linux is on a 15gig Hd but wanted to see if
gentoo was okay on the 2gig (push goes to shove i'll use the 15 gig
drive).

uses...

"normal" pc stuff word processing, Programming (eg kylix).


On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 20:28, Nick Rout wrote:
> depends what he wants to run on it and whteher he has other machines
> to distcc to.
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:14:14+1200 Christopher Sawtell
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:30, Dave Lilley wrote:
> > > i'd be in on this.
> > >
> > > got a 2gig hd (spare) and a p200 96meg ram (my pc).
> > 
> > I'm a bit worried that you may find that updating and generally
> > maintaining a Gentoo machine with that speed of processor would be
> > somewhat, shall we say, tiresome. To completely update the base of KDE
> > on a PII/400 takes from Saturday morning until some time on Wednesday.
> > While we will be able to compile applications for you on the much
> > faster machines which folk are bringing, I'm a bit concerned that we
> > might be landing you with a machine which is - in practice -
> > unmaintainable.
> > 
> > What do others think?
> > 
> > > where & when ???
> > Not known yet, depends how many people want to come.
> > 
> > --
> > C. S.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 


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