[ltp] Lightening Debian

[Hugo Santiago Carrer]

On 5/3/05, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman <bropers@cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
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> You can also compile on other machines or trivially setup a distcc farm
> that dramatically reduces compile times. Heck, you can setup distcc so th=
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> _none_ of the actual compilation takes place on the local node, it is all
> done over the network on other boxen. Gentoo is =FCber flexible in this r=
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I think we are getting OT here. I mean, we have gotten to a point
where we are suggesting bulding a distcc farm to compile the OS for a
rather small notebook.
Is it just me or it would be cheaper & faster just buying a new laptop?.

I think we should try to help the guy in the easiest and painless way.

2 cents
H


> Christopher Sawtell said the following on 2005.05.03 16:10:
> > On Wed, 04 May 2005 06:36, jeff wrote:
> >
> >>On Tuesday 03 May 2005 11:25, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote:
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> >>>While folks on the list may well flame me for years, ...
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> >>>I would also suggest a Gentoo installation specifically because you ca=
n
> >>>fully fine-tune what you want installed and what you don't want. This =
saves
> >>>precious disk and RAM space and also meets your educational goal of
> >>>teaching yourself "some stuff."  :)
> >>>
> >>
> >>Not flaming, but wouldn't that be time consuming on a 550MHz machine wi=
th
> >>minimal RAM?
> >
> > It takes from Saturday afternoon till Wednesday morning to compile an X=
-11 and KDE
> > system on a 400MHz P/II with 128 megs RAM.
> >
> >
> >>Or is there a faster install option for Gentoo now?
> >
> > Yes, You can load the desired packages from an archive of binaries.
> > This archive is by no means complete, but it includes many if not most =
of the core
> > applications. The Gentoo Handbook is a remarkable work and explains the=
 details.
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml
> >
> > I have run Gentoo for approximately 2 years, since the 1.2 release, and=
 find it
> > suits my needs better than any other distribution, and won't be changin=
g in the
> > near future. It runs well on my old P/II desktop, my R40 thinkPad, and =
my son's
> > AMD Athlon 2500+.
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > --
> > C. S.
> >
> >
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