[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How slow is too slow for Gentoo? I'm using Gentoo on a 233MHz laptop.
It's not fast, but it's perfectly adequate. Install did take over a
week, I'll admit.
I'm curious because I seem to do a lot of squeezing the most out of
underpowered computers, and Gentoo has been my friend in these projects.
I would like to know what conditions are not well suited to Gentoo.
Michael
I have Gentoo on a old Compaq Server, it's in my sig below, and at the
time I installed it, it only had one CPU. It took me a few hours to get
to a console prompt. It has no GUI, no monitor either. It runs great
by the way.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # uptime
04:14:46 up 20 days, 5:23, 1 user, load average: 4.00, 4.00, 4.00
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
I shut it down only when a storm is coming. I only have a UPS for my
desktop system. I had rude shutdowns. It runs folding and that is it.
All that said, I would like to see Gentoo on a 75MHz rig. That would be
fun to watch KDE compile on. LOL What, maybe a month or two, at
least. LOL
Dale
:-)
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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. Named Smoker
2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.
Named Swifty
3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB
drive. Named Pokey
4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB
SCSI drive. Named Putput
All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
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