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Should I put Gentoo on?
Name: MicrosoftMAN Date: April 23, 2004 at 15:15:09 Pacific OS: Debia 3.0 CPU/Ram: 166MHZ,32MB
Comment:
I have a machine that is 166MHZ, and 32MB of RAM. Should I try to install Gentoo on this system?
Name: taurus Date: April 23, 2004 at 15:32:59 Pacific
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You can install Gentoo, Slackware, older version of RedHat, Damn Small Linux, or any other version of Linux as long as you don't use one of those big window managers like KDE or Gnome! You don't have enough RAM for that. Instead, try something like Xfce, Windows Maker, Fluxbox/Blackbox, or even ICEWindows...
taurus
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Response Number 2
Name: Jake Date: April 23, 2004 at 15:35:34 Pacific
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What do you want to do with it? Do you just want to try Gentoo? If you're worried about it taking forever to compile stuff, you could use distcc.
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Response Number 3
Name: MicrosoftMAN Date: April 24, 2004 at 09:19:29 Pacific
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I am not to worried about it talking forever. But the only thing is that it messes up on Bootstrapping or will eventually give a Cloop error. Can it be that my CD is a tad old since I have no CD-R's left?
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