[mdlug] Lightweight desktop distribution recommendation

Clinton V. Weiss cvweiss at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 14:38:37 EDT 2007


On 7/23/07, Wojtak, Greg <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com> wrote:
> How about Gentoo?  Then you can decide how little/big you want your install
> to be?  Biggest pain is that it is almost from scratch.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/



I'm a user and a big fan of Gentoo, but it takes way to long to
compile on older systems.  Sure, one could use distcc, but not
everyone has more powerful machines available to them (hence the need
to use an older machine in the first place).


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Clinton V. Weiss
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