On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Bruno Damour <br...@ruomad.net> wrote: > Ok I have ONLY 1G mem, not much nowadays but anyway. > This laptop has been tested on different systems, first of all it runs WinXP > (at work) but I have also run gentoo (from stage 1 !, all self-compiled) and > I never felt it unresponsive or slow. > even running emerge -uD world was OK compared to what it feels withy pkg. > At least you had some output to watch ;-) > and I never had to stop browsing the web because I was updating my system. > > My main grief is not the time it takes, but that you cannot do anything > during this time. Even shell windows go grey. > > Bruno
Good description. It is completely impossible to work with or on anything, while pkg is doing his day-long trip. Not even running two big builds would bring the a given box in such a state (such as compiling OS/Net and X11 at once). That´s the main point. Just keeping it running (like wget) would not be that bad. -- %mab _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
