[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

Magnus magnus at trilug.org
Sun Mar 25 10:36:12 EDT 2007


jason at monsterjam.org wrote:
> (taking one more whack at this dead horse) thats why youd want to  run Gentoo. so you can be as lean and mean as you 
> want, or as fat and bloated as any modern-day M$/linux binary based distro. Nothing is installed by "default".
OK I'll feed the troll :)

So how many weeks will it take to compile everything needed for a basic 
desktop system running on something like a Pentium 75 with 16MB RAM and 
a 1GB hard disk?  And will it even fit?



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