aioshin Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 It's my first time (on gentoo), I tried installling gentoo on my pentium 3 450Mhz 196MB RAM... though I was able to install the base, no gui.... then, yesterday, I tried to install KDE... just #emerge -k kde ... installing it via internet, I think it already downloaded everything, but until now, it still compiling...is this how it should be.. or might be that my pc is just too slow? :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowe Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 It's your pc :P. It's quite slow, so it could take a while yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted July 8, 2005 Author Share Posted July 8, 2005 yeah and I was wrong saying it downloaded everything, coz now, it shows, downloading 48 of 97.. then compile again.... well, while waiting, I think its better to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Might be better to do: emerge -f <something> first, downloads all and then install it. p3@450 + kde = 2 weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted July 8, 2005 Author Share Posted July 8, 2005 ok, I gave up... now, I'm installing kanotix... gentoo... maybe if I have a much faster box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Well I have an AMD 500 that took a night to compile Gnome and all it's deps + addons (I'm guessing around six hours) - not sure about KDE though, never tried it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 About four weeks... :P Just kidding, I've got no idea. I heard it could take a few days compiling all stuff though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Kanotix will take you 30 minutes to install, and won't be slower than Gentoo, which would need at least 4 days to finish the same packages. On such a machine you could also try Vector Linux- it should really work nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 (edited) Kanotix will take you 30 minutes to install, and won't be slower than Gentoo, which would need at least 4 days to finish the same packages.On such a machine you could also try Vector Linux- it should really work nicely. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's slow. Archie's new hard drive installer which will be in the next release gives you a full desktop install in 10 minutes, flash, thunderbird, firefox, abiword, xchat, inkscape, gimp, gaim, gvim, beep-media-player/xmms, gftp and more. Edited July 8, 2005 by iphitus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowe Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 I recommend people to stay away from the debian based distro's, ones like Mepis, Kanotix and so on because they just seem badly broken. Ubuntu is the only one that seems kinda stable and that's because they make there own packages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 I recommend people to stay away from the debian based distro's, ones like Mepis, Kanotix and so on because they just seem badly broken. Ubuntu is the only one that seems kinda stable and that's because they make there own packages. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> oh oh... don't tell us that debian based distros are not worth our time because it didn't work for you. i didn't have any problems with mepis, kanotix, knopix, beatrix and other debian based distros. it REALLY depends on the computer you use. i could say e.g. gentoo is shit. but this would be only my opinion, based on my personal experiences with special hardware in a special box. then i buy a new box and suddenly gentoo works. so ... is gentoo still shit then? (or any other distro) btw.: gentoo is nice. not that you assume that i dislike gentoo. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowe Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 oh oh... don't tell us that debian based distros are not worth our time because it didn't work for you. i didn't have any problems with mepis, kanotix, knopix, beatrix and other debian based distros. it REALLY depends on the computer you use. i could say e.g. gentoo is shit. but this would be only my opinion, based on my personal experiences with special hardware in a special box. then i buy a new box and suddenly gentoo works. so ... is gentoo still shit then? (or any other distro) btw.: gentoo is nice. not that you assume that i dislike gentoo. :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not quite, it's not because they didn't work for me or didn't do what i wanted them to do. It's because most of the packages seem highly unstable and most of the time don't work, among a bunch of other problems if you do a HD install of kanotix, mepis and so on. I have a knoppix cd always, i always keep one incase my system messes up, they are great for that. The only debian based distro that doesn't seem broken is ubuntu, because like i said they make their own packages. Disagree with me all you like, but from what i've tried of mepis, kanotix and knoppix as HD installs they're awful. I have nothing against debian based distro's heck im using ubuntu again, so don't think i'm actually against them because i'm not. It's not because they didn't work for me, it's because i found them highly unstable to the point they were unusable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 well... most of them are a frozen debian unstable without any sorted out bugs... so what do you expect from distros that are sometimes built by only one person?. :lol: oh, and debian etch ain't more stable than kanotix imho. but then again... this is only my impression. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 (edited) Well archie is pure Arch Linux, and uses a pure arch linux install with zero modifications, so it allows full compatibility with Arch packages :D we wanted to avoid the situation, knoppix, and other debian based liveCDs have with issues with packages compatibility. Edited July 9, 2005 by iphitus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 I wouldn't use etch right now. As a rule the Debian testing (etch) can be unstable at first. I'll check etch out in a couple of months, perhaps replacing Sarge some time after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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