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From: Shawn Haggett <podge@podgeweb.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:48:00 pm Grant Edwards wrote:
> <snip> Of course that's not be the same
> thing as "practical" for some machines (I believe my OOo emerge
> just passed hour 31).  It would be interesting to know how much
> further it's go to go, but as long as it's done in a week or so
> that'll be good enough.  I remember building binutils, gcc,
> X11, emacs, and so on from sources on a 25MHz 68000 with 4MB of
> RAM -- that took some patience as well.

Have a look at the 'genlop' package.