[ale] gentoo success!

[Geoffrey]

Charles Marcus wrote:
>>From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:42 PM
>>
>>I have a prompt. :)
>>
>>So, let's see:
>>
>>P75, 1.2g drive, 32mb memory, 128mb swap.
>>
>>Not bad.  Then again, I just installed Slack 8.1 on:
>>
>>486/33 20mb memory 64mb swap.  2.5gig drive of which 5% is used. :)
> 
> 
> Well, Gentoo never claimed to be a 'minimalist' oriented distro...
> 
> Congrats on the success!
> 
> Now, it should only take you a week or so to get X and KDE working (if you
> decide to go that far).  It would be interesting to see how well KDE works
> on that under-powered machine, since it is so much faster on a fast machine.
> Wonder if it would be usable?

Hmmm, I don't know, but I'd not actually planned on installing X, since 
I was building it as a print server.  I might give it a spin just for 
grins though.

> 
> Charles
> 

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