[TriLUG] Looking for a small Linux

[Randy Barlow]

Jason S. Evans wrote:
> I could be persuaded to run Gentoo.  However, compiling everything would
> be ungodly slow.  Is there anyway to have may main PC (AMD64 X2 2Gig Ram)
> compile the software and then automagically install it to the laptop to
> cut down on install time?

Yes!  You can use DistCC, which is easy is Gentoo[1].  I do this with my 
Gentoo systems, and it really makes a difference.  You can have your 
main PC do all the work, or you can have the two share the load.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml

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Randy Barlow
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