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Philip Webb wrote: |
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>060101 Chris White wrote: |
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>>On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:22, michael@×××××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>>>How slow is too slow for Gentoo? I'm using Gentoo on a 233MHz laptop. |
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>>>Install did take over a week, I'll admit. |
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>>One of the main factor people consider is time ... |
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>>... Time is the main factor that draws people away. |
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>Exactly ! I really don't have "over a week" to spend updating a back-up box ! |
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>Esp as I have only 1 monitor, so can't use the regular machine meantime ! |
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Of the four machines I have, three are updated over ssh, no monitor at |
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all. Rigs are below. I can even start the updates and then shutdown my |
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main rig, that has the monitor. I login and start a screen session, |
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then start the updates. If I plan to shutdown my main rig for some |
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reason, I do the -f option first since the souces are on my main rig. |
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If I need to shutdown my main rig, I just exit the screen session and |
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logout. I can login later and re-attach the session to see how it's going. |
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Maybe there is something different about my old Compaq but I don't think |
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it would take me that long, even with one CPU. My install went pretty |
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quick and I did compile everything. I even did a emerge -ev world to |
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make sure. |
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Maybe I just hate Mandrake to much. LOL Please don't tell me I have to |
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install Mandrake ever again. PLEASE !!!!! |
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Also keep this in mind, "good things come to those who wait." To me, |
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Gentoo is worth waiting for. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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I have four rigs: |
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1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker |
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2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty |
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3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey |
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4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput |
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All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. |
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