Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
Prabhat,Thanks guys for all your help. I really love gentoo and the user community.
Sometime it feels good to debug using DDD rather using plain gdb.
I can see that. I'm running full SuSE 8.0 on a Thinkpad 770 at home, with the usual KDE, so the 760 should be able to handle it, too. I've got to admit, though, that I do most of my debugging manually. I learned before they had these fancy tools.
Anyway my boss needs 4-5 of those junk laptops to demostrate compute farms and he need some graphics.
I am looking for ideas to reduce the space requirment and also compile
time. I have only 24 hrs left for this :(
Whoosh. With only 24 hours left I'd choose a distro that would install without the compilation. Have you considered Knoppix running straight off the CD? It comes up in KDE.
I love Gentoo, but it won't build on old slow machines in 24 hours, especially if you are doing KDE. Someone mentioned KDE-base to give you a minimal KDE. I'd second that. You can find smaller window managers, too. But building X will still take more time than you have. I've just completed a Gentoo install on a Sony Vaio (Celleron 333MHz) and it took days. Full KDE ("emerge kde") from the stage 1 install was 120 packages, some of which took more than a day.
You might remind your boss of the old triangle rule of thumb: Draw a triangle, label the corners "good", "fast" and "cheap". Select any one line and you can have those characteristics at its ends.
In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,
Tom :-})
I think I will try to emerge xfree and then teach my boss how to install KDE-BASE.
He is my "remote" boss.
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