[PLUG] which distro for compaq notebook...or am I screwed?

[Matt Chorman]

I have a P133 with 32M ram laptop (an old Micron Millenia Transport) running 
gentoo - I was lucky enough to have a cluster to compile with this last time, 
but the first time I compiled XFree it took close to 30 hours. It was not 
necessary that I use it during this time, so I did not need it and the 
compile time was not a problem for me.. My windowmanager on this is 
WindowMaker - it is surprisingly quick on this heavy, slow, old (but 
reliable) beast. Speaking of which, anyone have a battery for this model they 
would want to sell? ;-)

One thing that can save you a lot of time with an older system is to use a 
"stage3" install - this basically means you don't bootstrap your system (and 
you use precompiled glibc and gcc for your platform - they are generally 
optimized for each generation of processor.)

There are also precompiled packages available for KDE, Xfree, Gnome, 
OpenOffice.org, etc.. (All the biggies..) 

M

On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:53 am, Mark Lemming wrote:
> Bill Spears wrote:
> > Matt, regarding Gentoo, I've got a little laptop that I just love.  It's
> > a Travelmate 330 Pentium II at 400MHz with 64M RAM.  It's now running RH
> > 7.2. If compiling KDE is a problem, then I could use a more light weight
> > WM. Do you think it would be feasible to install Gentoo?
>
> Having just compiled KDE for a PIII-650, you're looking at 25+ hours of
> compiling fun. (Depending on your USE variables and the like)
>
> You might want to go with fluxbox which is much lighter.
>
> -Mark
>
>
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