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On Friday 09 December 2005 16:55, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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Check out Kubuntu dude. It's probably right up your alley. This is *not* an |
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anti-Gentoo email. I 100% love Gentoo, and will continue to use it! |
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(Puts asbestos suit back in the drawer...) |
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> I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: |
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> I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of |
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> kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB |
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> ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a |
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> lighter, faster compiling, X setup. |
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> I've been away from Fedora now for about a year I guess. I left |
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> Fedora and redhat after nearly 10yrs because the updates had gotten to |
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> where it was every few mnths a full reinstall. I liked gentoo because |
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> one can update cleanly without a full reinstall, but now I'm losing |
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> what seems even more time with really slow compilations |
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> Just on the face of it, it seems somewhat unreasonable with modern |
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> software and powerfull computers, to need to spend this amount of time |
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> just to get working software running. |
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> I seem to recall a kde install being a matter that consumed something |
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> like 1/2 hr on Fedora. Must be that those packages are already |
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> compiled? |
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> Is that an option for us? |
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> Is there some burning important reason why we need to throw away hours |
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> and hours compiling kde? Wouldn't a binary distribution of kde serve |
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> as well in most ways? |
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Han Solo: |
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Oh! I thought they smelled bad on the *outside*! |
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