*I'll agree on the waste of time part. Especially compiling things at 700MHz with a single thread. I hadn't heard of Yocto Project though. I may look into that. Thanks!*
* * *--- Dan* On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Levi Pearson <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mar 11, 2013 9:20 AM, "Lonnie Olson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Arch isn't a source based distro like Gentoo. It is a lot more > > "hands-on" than others like Fedora and Debian though. No compiling, > > just more involved. > > > > Well, the core packages for Arch are available as binary packages, but a > lot of things you might want are in a separate source-package-only > repository. And I think you can get binary packages for Gentoo as well, so > they're not terribly different. > > For a really customized image, I would recommend cross-compiling with the > Yocto Project tools, because compiling things on a wimpy ARM with a slow > disk is a waste of time. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
