Oct
12
2005

Gentoo's Still Compiling

(Add / View Comments) (0)Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 01:12:35 pm
(Posted Under: Geek, Linux Linux, Gentoo Linux Gentoo Linux)
Eh, I'm over the cliche dig at Gentoo - "It's still compiling". Notibly slash dotters are culprits of this.

Last Friday I set up a Gentoo box as a router (with VPN) for the office. I started later in the morning, and had the damn thing done, and was leaving the office at 4pm.

This was on a Pentium 3 1Ghz, with 256 RAM. Admitadly I also had distcc setup on Gentoo inside a virtual machine on my chucky Dell 3.0Ghz workstation, but even so... Bullocks to digs about how long it takes to install Gentoo. From Stage 3 anyway...

I do remember when it'd take days to get a Gentoo machine up and going - which was partly incompetance on my part at the time. It's been such a long time since a Gentoo install has taken more than a couple of hours. (Less when copying a portage tree and distfiles from an existing machine).

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