[Klug-general] [Klug-General] More free stuff

[George Prowse]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> George Prowse wrote:
>   
>> A laptop with very little RAM and processor power is always a great 
>> opportunity to install Gentoo :D
>>     
>
> Really?  The things that really help with compiling lots of stuff are 
> lots of cores, lots of memory and lovely quick disks.  None of these 
> things are usually present on a laptop.
>   
That's only getting it set up, Gentoo has a tiny footprint and once you 
get everything up and running (it may take a day or two) it should run 
faster than your average binary based distro. You dont need to keep 
updating Gentoo, some people on production servers will do it once a year