gentoo and a pentium 166Mhz?

Rawn027 · 03-12-2004, 05:14 PM

is this combo acceptable..i just gota cheap free computer will this be a faster OS than win98 for my Pentium? thanks

ringwraith · 03-12-2004, 06:53 PM

Since you posted this in a Slackware forum, I would like to recommend Slackware as the ideal distro for your box. You may not want to run KDE or Gnome, more like fluxbox, xfce or one of the lighter weight windowmanagers.

kev^ · 03-12-2004, 10:05 PM

look at it this way Rawn027,

with Slackware, you will have a solid distribution up n running in about an hour on your cpu (maybe a bit more but that's about it)

with Gentoo, you will take an eternity but after, that's when you understand the point of those gentoo installations: SPEED!

At0mic_PC · 03-13-2004, 07:26 AM

Yeah I'd recomend slackware. With gentoo it makes you compile everything. Probally why they think it's so cool. "Look I compile EVERYTHING! emerge blah...." They may as well be typing rpm....

slackerboy · 03-17-2004, 10:01 PM

Rawn027

You should be ok running Slackware. I am using Slack 8.0
on a Pentium 166 with 128 mb of ram and love it. I have
mysql running, and can burn cd's. So far it has been rock
solid: no crashes. I am using kde and gnome but spent
most of the time at the command line prompt.

Good luck to you.