On 12/9/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris White wrote: > > >On Saturday 10 December 2005 06:55, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > > >>I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: > >> > >>I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of > >>kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB > >>ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a > >>lighter, faster compiling, X setup. > >> > >> > > > >sure, why are you emerge-ing the full kde? > > > >1) `emerge kdebase` > >2) ??? > >3) Profit! > > > >I'm on a 1.6ghz, and being a dev I compile more packages than most users > ever > >will, have patience my son :P. > > > >Chris White > > > > > He should have been here when I installed Gentoo on a 200Mhz machine.
He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of other packages on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM, what other distro could turn that machine on a useful server other than Gentoo. Keep the compile times, I kinda like them because I can always tell my neighboor all that text going down must be watched so I can't go and fix his computer. > > Dale > :-) > > -- > To err is human, I'm most certainly human. > > I have four rigs: > > 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now > two 80GB hard drives. > 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB > drive. > 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB > drive. > 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a > 4.3GB SCSI drive. > > All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as > servers. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
