On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Mehul Ved <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Arindam <[email protected]> wrote: >> One desktop is a PIII 733 MHz with Intel 815e chipset, 512 Megs >> on-board memory and 40G hard drive. >> One is a P4 2.4 GHz with 1 G memory and 40G hard-drive. >><snip> >> 2. Are there Gentoo users who can tell me about their experience with >> Gentoo. Is it too much of a bother in the long run to perform software >> upgrades? > > Being a former gentoo user, I would recommend not to go for gentoo > with this config as it will take eternity to compile packages, though > big packages like firefox and openoffice come as pre-compiled binaries > too. > Have a look at arch linux also. >
Thanks. I was looking for some informed opinion on Gentoo. Meanwhile I managed to crash my hdd it seems - more on that on another thread. Thanks. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
