Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

[Brian Davis <bridavis@comcast.net>]

I've also used -O2 on my Pentium 2 Celeron system without any problems.

I used to run -Os back on my Pentium 200Mhz days, and that works fine 
too ;).

Honestly, however I never did any benchmarking between the different -O 
settings on any of these machines, so I'm not sure they were the best 
setting to use. These were recommendations I'd gotten from the forums.

Caveat: there is no GUI involved on either of these systems, just 
headless servers.

Thanks,
Brian

Chris Frederick wrote:
> Karl Huysmans wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell 
>> laptop
>> he got for free.
>>
>> The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will 
>> be used
>> by his young children.
>>
>> I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very
>> usefull stuff for kids, but it really runs too slow on this machine.
>>
>> So I was thinking Gentoo, optimized for PII, I guess -Os would be a good
>> option for this little machine. Any thoughts anyone?
>>
>> What about the desktop? I guess Gnome or KDE is not really the best 
>> choice.
>> But what else could I use? Of course, it's for kids, so I have to be 
>> able to
>> make it look nice :-) What would be a good window manager? File manager?
>> Other applications that help to keep it lean an fast?
>>
>> Anyone with any experience building such a system under Gentoo?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Karl
>>
>
> I've got an old NEC and Thinkpad that I use for VNC clients to my 
> server.  I've also loaded a "bare bones" desktop system in case I take 
> them out somewhere.
>
> I've loaded fluxbox, dillo, spruce, mplayer, and some assorted games 
> (pysol, xbomb, xtris, etc...)  Surprisingly this system responds 
> better then my Win2k server at work.
>
> I have a dual xeon server that I did all the building on, then I just 
> boot the laptop to the minimal cd and partition drives and use the tar 
> file from my server in place of the stage3.  Then just load grub, 
> reboot, and you just saved yourself days of compiling.
>
> I used -O2 for compiling, and since I use my server to do all the 
> building from, I delete /usr/portage before I load it on the laptops. 
> this puts me around ~850M for a complete system (My laptops only have 
> a 2G/3G hard drives with 96M/128M ram).
>
> Chris Frederick
>
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