RAV TUX,
I've always wanted to put Gentoo on an old Pentium MMX @ 200MHz with 48MB of RAM that I had lying around, but alas, that box is lost to me now. :)
Using Gentoo on old machines
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This is maybe a stupid question, but as far as I know gentoo compiles every single package for your box, isn't it? I've tried gentoo ones, but I went back to Debian based distros because of emerge. It might be slightly faster than Debian afterwards, however it take way to long to compile and install KDE for example or gimp or whatever. Has this changed somehow?
I'd like to give Sabayon / Gentoo another change so what do you think?
Depending on the size of the app it can be slow, also depends on your cpu. But you could always run it in the background and carry on working.
Definately faster than Debian afterwards. Maybe try the DVD version as it will require downloading less stuff.
mips said:
Definately faster than Debian afterwards. Maybe try the DVD version as it will require downloading less stuff.
+1