It will still take time unless your not going to bother compiling Machine Specific with O2 or O3 level optimisations. Also I take it your not going to recompile Mozilla or Mozillafirebird or Openoffice or to many Large QT apps with the C++ Precompling and all? So your doing Min installs? 1 Desktop 1 web browser etc other wise a full system x 4or5 is going to take a while even with that much horsepower.
And what are you all going to do while the Machines compile it's not going to take 1 min or even 2 to recompile Mozilla let alone kde even with that many machines? Remeber theres going to be a fair bit of overhead involved. Only 1 or 2 people are needed to config a computer so your not all going to be doing that. Surely your not going to be so busy that you can't spend 10 mins configuring a XFree Config file. Rember it's Mandrake your'd be dealing with it's not like you have to write the entire thing using vi. And recompiling Gentoo for the Machine would take ALOT longer than fixing a Config file even with all those Machines. Any way Gentoo is simply not for a Newbie really It lacks the decent GUI config tools that are needed. By the way what times it on? I've got an exam in the morning but it would be interesting to head along and have a look. (If thats allowed of course ;-)) Chad > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 20:26, you wrote: > > > If you were to turn up with your machine, and all the extra things like > > > power-cords, monitor, keyboard and mice etc. and $10 in your hot little > > > hand you'd have a pretty good chance of getting one of the better Linux > > > systems installed. You will need a network card or be happy for one of > > > us to open your machine and fit one. > > > > I'd suggest sticking with Mandrake. But if you head along to the > > installfest someone should be able to help you set it up while waiting > > for Gentoo to compile! > > There won't be time! We have set-up 5 2000MHz, several ~1000Mhz and the > OSTC's own bank of 300MHz machines as a compile farm. > > While Gentoo needs an experienced person to set it up, it's just a complete > doddle to install and update things. RPM hell is a thing of the past! > > I'll never, ever, change back to a binary distribution!!! > > -- > C. S.
