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From: Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:23:11
Message-Id: 1912929.usQuhbGJ8B@lenovo.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on? by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Thursday, 21 April 2022 17:00:04 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 08:24 -0700, cal wrote:
3 > > Do you have any other (more powerful) machines at home that you could
4 > > set up as a distcc cluster?
5 >
6 > My desktop is only slightly more powerful. I don't really mind the
7 > webkit-gtk build time since it's shared between epiphany and evolution.
8 > I just run that (and/or gcc) overnight when I need to.
9
10 I have an old Acer laptop with a Core 2 Duo P7550 @2.26GHz CPU and only 4G
11 RAM. It will compile everything, even rust and qtwebengine, although it may
12 take more than a day to achieve this. Hence I use a more modern PC to build
13 binaries which I then transfer and emerge on the laptop in minutes.
14
15
16 > > In addition to the usual problem packages others have called out, the
17 > > main problem I ran into was heat dissipation
18 >
19 > I leave it on top of a giant fan or near an open window, weather
20 > permitting.
21
22 Or, use some blocks/books to suspend it off the desk. A couple of inches may
23 be enough. Alternatively, you can buy a cooling pad. Some come with USB
24 powered fans too, which help drop the CPU temperature by another couple of
25 degrees.

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