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> I have $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on the SD card, which is cheap enough to replace |
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> if too many OOo compiles toast it. |
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And I took your advice |
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>> 2. It's sloooooow |
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> I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly some compiles completed. Not as |
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> fast as my desktop of course, but faster than was expecting, although 14 |
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> hours for OOo required a certain amount of patience. |
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My speeds vary, Sometimes it seems quicker than at other times. Most |
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noticeably when I log in; sometimes it takes ~10 secs for the prompt |
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to show, sometimes it's instantaneous |
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>> Maybe wait for Neil Bothwick to show up and ask him for the gory |
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>> details - he seems to have gotten it down pat on his Eee. |
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> As mentioned yesterday, I now do all emerges in a chroot on my desktop to |
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> build binary packages, then emerge -k on the Eee, so Ooo only takes 90 |
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> minutes now. The only compiling I do on the Eee is kernel changes. |
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Negatory. My dialup is attenuated by 8 miles of analog telephone line. |
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When I'm mobile it's a different story. |
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mw |
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