[plug] iBook question

[William Kenworthy]

try the gentoo GRP binary sets first and just recompile the packages
that may benefit depending on what you want to do with it (i.e., the
toolchain then X stuff in most cases - do it over the weekend, leaving
it running at work!)

I (almost) always compile the gentoo installs I do, but its not really
necessary these days if the time investment is too much

Also, after associating with mac OS 9.1 for a couple of hours over the
last few days I suspect even windoze would be an improvement!

BillK

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 22:06, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Two words:
> > 
> > PPC Debian
> > 
> > Gentoo runs well but you gotta like compiling stuff.
> 
> Which, I expect, isn't much fun on a 366MHz G3, especially with a laptop
> hard disk. I get sufficiently annoyed with compile times on my PIII/800
> laptop that I offload lots of compilation tasks for my laptop to my
> Athlon - so I can't imagine being able to handle the iBook. OTOH, if
> you're patient I guess it'd be ok.
> 
> Nonetheless, I'd be inclined to try a distro that required less
> compilation first.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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