On Thursday 07 September 2006 15:26, Anurag wrote:
Sometime on Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:23:21PM +0530, Mrugesh Karnik
said:
On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:18, Anurag wrote:
Gentoo should do fine :)
Nah, not enough space on MY computer to compile packages for him. :)
P.S. Why would kmail not quote this email properly when I hit reply? All
it would quote was this:
:)
haha! do you mean your Kmail also understood the joke :)
Actually, I understood the joke, but the fact is that Gentoo does run fine on such low end machines. It is quite ok to install using the binaries provided with the newest release, because they're compiled for i686. The only problem would be compiling the software. This can be done away with if one is ready to upgrade the software only when a new version of Gentoo is released. But Gentoo has no proper release schedule that I know of.
Anyway, the workaround is to compile packages for i686 on a faster system, make binaries and install them on the slow machine.