[ale] Need a better Linux distro

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 6/1/2020 16:02, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> On Sun, 31 May 2020 23:50:32 -0400
> Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> On 5/31/20 9:30 PM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
>>> Gentoo is interesting, but all my computers are old; second or
>>> third hand.
>> As are all mine. Your point? :)
> Depending on how old, initial compilation takes more than a day on old
> computers. Even daily updates take awhile on old computers.
>
> I wonder if there's a way to do the initial compilations on a VM, where
> they're very fast, and then rsync the results to root on the iron
> machine?
>
> SteveT
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Hold are we talking about here?  My Computer is about 10 years old.  An 
older AMD 955 with 20GB.

It handles Gentoo pretty well.  Most updates only takes a few minutes 
unless I'm updating kernels or some really big package.