[CLUE-Tech] Debian: gpm not installing by default+

[Randy Arabie]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Collins wrote:

> I've been a gentoo afficionado from the early days (mostly on gentoo
> since early last year).  It is now a really good (tm) product.  If you
> can handle "build a system from source" with all the downloads and
> compiles (3-5 days for a complete system), it's the only way to fly.

Collins,

Your evangalism got me interested, you can take the credit ;-)

I burned the 1.0 iso, which does have some precompiled stuff to 
get you going quicker.  However, I opted for the "build it from 
scratch" route.  It does take a long time.  

I running dual PII 866 w/ 256 MB RAM, and I've got a DSL connection.

Base System --- 4 hours
X & xfce    --- 6 hours

You should note that most of the base compile was done w/ the boot 
uni-processor kernel.

Now I'm working on the rest (office packages, mozilla, gimp, etc...).

-- 
Cheerio!

Randy

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