Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:53:52 -0700, Grant wrote: > Yeah how is the thing to use? How long does a firefox compile take? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 0]% genlop -i mozilla-firefox * www-client/mozilla-firefox Total builds: 1 Global build time: 1 hour, 24 minutes and 2 seconds. Info about curre

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > While we're at it, can Gentoo run without a swap partition or swap > file? Any Linux can run just fine without swap. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:19:14 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm thinking of doing something similar soon. Another reason for not > building on the EEE is to save wear-and-tear on the flash drive. I > suppose one should also use a filesystem without journalling to save the > flash drive. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:14:53PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > Compilation might take a while though :-) perhaps you should cross-build > from an existing beefier machine I'm thinking of doing something similar soon. Another reason for not building on the EEE is to save wear-and-tear on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:53 -0700, Grant wrote: > >> I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her > >> birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: yeah, ASUS did, but they quickly realised their mistake, and put a superiour operating system on it (Windows X

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Grant
>> I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her >> birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: >> >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 >> >> but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. >> >> - Grant > > There a whole user modding community grown up a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Grant wrote: > I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her > birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 > > but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. > > - Grant There a whole user

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:47:32 -0700, Grant wrote: > I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her > birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: I've put Gentoo on an Eee PC 900. So far the only things not working are sound, which appears to be a common probl

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Andrey Falko
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her > birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 > > but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. > > -

[gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Grant
I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list