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On 02/09/15 23:54, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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>Hello, |
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>On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 18:05:44 -0700 Joseph wrote: |
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>> I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would be too slow to compile anything. |
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>> It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter version of Linux on it. |
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>> What are my alternatives? |
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>Just use Gentoo. I have an EeePC 1000H and it runs fine. |
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>Well, I replaced memory bank with 2GB one and setup my system to |
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>be slightly overclocked (1700 MHz) when on AC power using SHE |
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>technology (available in linux kernel). But even without memory |
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>upgrade hardware is fine. |
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>> I'll would like to run VPN, some browser on it and skype. |
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>VPNs are lightweight packages (e.g. openvpn). Both firefox and |
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>chromium are not a problem. Skype is binary only, so no difference |
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>from other distributions here. |
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>The only real problem with this hardware are @world updates. To |
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>facilitate this process use ccache and distcc. You most likely have |
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>another more powerful box (e.g. a desktop or more powerful laptop), |
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>so you can setup distcc there regardless of the distribution. So |
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>powerful box will compile C/C++/ObjC code for you, while EeePC will |
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>handle |
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>If by some chance you have another peace of very powreful |
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>hardware (e.g. 2x recent Xeon) there is another approach to follow. |
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>You may export root filesystem from EeePC to that host via NFS, |
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>setarch and chroot to it and run all stuff from your powerful box. |
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>This way the only bottleneck will be 100 Mbps network interface, |
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>which is quite bearable, especially using caching (like |
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>cachefilesd). |
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>Yet again, all these tricks are required for @world updates only, |
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>for other stuff EeePC is self sufficient box. |
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>Best regards, |
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>Andrew Savchenko |
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I've installed xubuntu as I need it fast. I know it will take me a week or so to configure and compile Gentoo on it, just to boot strap. |
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And it would take me some time to configure distcc on my faster boxes for compilation, especially that it was a long time ago when I plaid with it. |
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Joseph |
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