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[diego.moore at gmail.com]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:45:32 +0100, Paul Graydon <paul at paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote:
> Strangely, living in Haywards Heath..I didn't join a Burgess Hill LUG, I
> joined a Horsham based one :-)
> Thought I'd pop my head up and say hello, having been subscribed for about a
> week.
> Another Gentoo user here, I must say though.  Still primarily Windows based,
> but I have my Gentoo box more as a fiddle platform (hence the Linux computer
> name "Fiddles")
> 
> Made the mistake of setting KDE compiling from sources the other day instead
> of doing binaries... Sheesh.  11 hours on an XP2500+.  Next time I'm
> remotely possessed to do that I'll use the Gentoo live disk and set my
> Windows box up for distcc compiling!

Well I did a stage1 install + kde + gnome from source with no distcc
on a Dual 450mhz G4. It took me two weeks in total on and off, but to
be fair the first week was spent updating MacOS 9, partitioning and
trying to get the dual boot to work. A flippin' nightmare!

I must admit I did not know you could use distcc on a windows box, can
you 'pause' the windows box or does it have to be up and running
throughout the compile?

OT: Is it worth using distcc over a WAN, what bandwidth would it need
for it to be worthwhile?