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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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> It's not fast, but it's perfectly adequate. Install did take over a |
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> week, I'll admit. |
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> I'm curious because I seem to do a lot of squeezing the most out of |
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> underpowered computers, and Gentoo has been my friend in these projects. |
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> I would like to know what conditions are not well suited to Gentoo. |
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> Michael |
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I have Gentoo on a old Compaq Server, it's in my sig below, and at the |
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time I installed it, it only had one CPU. It took me a few hours to get |
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to a console prompt. It has no GUI, no monitor either. It runs great |
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by the way. |
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> root@putput / # uptime |
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> 04:14:46 up 20 days, 5:23, 1 user, load average: 4.00, 4.00, 4.00 |
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> root@putput / # |
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I shut it down only when a storm is coming. I only have a UPS for my |
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desktop system. I had rude shutdowns. It runs folding and that is it. |
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All that said, I would like to see Gentoo on a 75MHz rig. That would be |
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fun to watch KDE compile on. LOL What, maybe a month or two, at |
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least. LOL |
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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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