On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:03:58AM +0200, Penguin Lover Heinz Sporn squawked: > Am Freitag, den 31.03.2006, 10:12 +0200 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Thanks to everyone who replied (Willie, Daniel, Todor...) > > > > Just out of curiosity: how long (approximately) does it take > > to install a common gentoo-desktop (with X+KDE) on a notebook > > (pentium-m 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM)? So that I knew how much time > > to reserve for it... > > I have a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M with 512 MB RAM and I find that little beast > a noch faster than my P4 2.4 desktop with 512 MB. I compiled a full > blown Gnome environment including Firefox and OpenOffice 2 in less then > a day. I didn't recognize temperature issues - every now and then the > cooler turned on for a couple of minutes and that was it. >
My experience is similar, though I'd say my laptop and desktop are just about as fast (1.6PM+512ram vs 2.0P4+512ram). My last 'emerge -e world' on the laptop took just under 2 days: I don't have any large packages like KDE or Gnome or OO, but that's also with a lot of crap that I installed which is not necessary for a base system. If you leave you laptop in a well ventilated area, overheating shouldn't be an issue. As a side question, there used to be an option with 'genlop' which you can pipe to it the output from 'emerge --pretend' and show the expected total merge time. Is there a way of doing this with 'qlop'? W -- ARTHUR What is an Algolian Zylatburger anyway? FORD They're a kind of meatburger made from the most unpleasant parts of a creature well known for its total lack of any pleasant parts. ARTHUR So you mean that the Universe does actually end not with a bang but with a Wimpy? - Cut dialogue from Fit the Fifth. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 139 days, 8:50 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list