Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

[Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>]

michael@michaelshiloh.com wrote:

>
> How slow is too slow for Gentoo? I'm using Gentoo on a 233MHz laptop.
> It's not fast, but it's perfectly adequate. Install did take over a
> week, I'll admit.
>
> I'm curious because I seem to do a lot of squeezing the most out of
> underpowered computers, and Gentoo has been my friend in these projects.
> I would like to know what conditions are not well suited to Gentoo.
>
> Michael



I have Gentoo on a old Compaq Server, it's in my sig below, and at the 
time I installed it, it only had one CPU.  It took me a few hours to get 
to a console prompt.   It has no GUI, no monitor either.  It runs great 
by the way. 

> root@putput / # uptime
>  04:14:46 up 20 days,  5:23,  1 user,  load average: 4.00, 4.00, 4.00
> root@putput / #


I shut it down only when a storm is coming.  I only have a UPS for my 
desktop system.  I had rude shutdowns.  It runs folding and that is it.

All that said, I would like to see Gentoo on a 75MHz rig.  That would be 
fun to watch KDE compile on.  LOL  What, maybe a month or two, at 
least.  LOL

Dale
:-)


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To err is human, I'm most certainly human.

I have four rigs:

1:  Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives.  Named Smoker
2:  Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.  Named Swifty
3:  Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive.  Named Pokey
4:  Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive.  Named Putput

All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.  

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