On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Norman Rieß <nor...@smash-net.org> wrote:
> Am 08/18/11 09:11, schrieb Matthew Finkel: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Norman Rieß <nor...@smash-net.org > > <mailto:nor...@smash-net.org>> wrote: > > > > Am 08/17/11 13:44, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: > > > On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > >> On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote: > > >>> How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production > > use? > > >>> For > > >>> server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting > > setup > > >>> or use case? > > >> > > >> Since you ask: my workstation runs Gentoo. My old workstation > > sometimes > > >> does; at other times it's experimenting with other distributions. > > >> > > >> I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo, > > but it's > > >> too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it > > NFS-exports its > > >> packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32-bit > > chroot set up as > > >> an image of the Atom. Emerging is done here, making the packages > > available > > >> for installation on the Atom. This is a cumbersome operation > though. > > >> > > >> The Atom serves web, time, squid proxy, dns, cups and mysql to > > the LAN. It > > >> runs http-replicator and rsyncd to keep a local portage tree for > > the other > > >> boxes. I'd like it to serve mail too, but I've never managed to > > set that up. > > > > > > Putting email on the Atom using IMAP might not be the best option. > > IMAP can be > > > quite heavy on resources on the server-side. > > > > > > I use a quad-core AMD for my server. > > > > > > -- > > > Joost > > > > > > > Depends on how you use it. I have an IMAP-Server running on Atom > which > > holds my email archive. Also depends on the Software you use for the > > IMAP-Server. > > I can not see why a N270 could not serve a moderate amount of users > > on IMAP. > > > > Concerning the "Atom not fast enough for compiling"-Problem. I > compiled, > > run and update a Gentoo System on a AMD Geode LX, which is way less > > powerfull and it works just fine. > > > > Norman > > > > > > Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile gcc? > > > > - Matt > > Atom: > > genlop -t sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5 > * sys-devel/gcc > > Sat Feb 26 13:06:08 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5 > merge time: 1 hour, 12 minutes and 27 seconds. > > Wed Mar 23 23:01:12 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5 > merge time: 1 hour, 10 minutes and 22 seconds. > > > Geode: > > genlop -t sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5 > * sys-devel/gcc > > Sat Feb 26 19:11:36 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5 > merge time: 7 hours, 17 minutes and 41 seconds. > > Fri Mar 25 05:51:21 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5 > merge time: 7 hours, 17 minutes and 2 seconds. > > > Norman > > Interesting, thanks! I was interested in a comparison of compile times. I was originally going to ask how long it takes to compile OO/LibreOffice but then figured your system most likely didn't have it. haha And as you said in your other reply, if you rarely have to interact with this system, and compiling doesn't result in significant lag, why not compile it? It'd take a century to emerge an entire feature-full desktop/server build, but as a small embedded system it actually sounds reasonable.
