you are right. if the man brings his machine along someone m,ay have a chance to look at it.
sounds like he mainly has X problems On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 21:14:11+1200 Chad<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > --
