[sclug] Re: Gentoo Adventure

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Thu Nov 25 15:25:08 UTC 2004


On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:52:16PM -0000, Neil Owens wrote:
> emerging KDE took nearly 36 hours on a 1GHz 256MB Tosh laptop - and
> that's after the net connection dropped out (NTL 'upgrade'), causing
> the emerge to barf half way through.  Moral - download everything
> first, them compile it.

Or use a precompiled distribution... ;)

Simon.

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