Wifi woes.

Tom Ellis tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk
Fri Feb 20 18:19:14 CET 2009


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 03:44:20PM +0000, Longman wrote:
> * Dom Latter wrote:
> > So I am toying with the idea of installing Gentoo because a) it's a 
> > very old machine that needs a lean mean distro and b) it would be 
> > reasonably easy (I hope) to pin back the kernel to one that still
> > works.
> 
> The only comment I can make about Gentoo is make sure you use
> distributed compilation if it's a very old machine otherwise you'll be
> compiling code for days..

Absolutely.  If you want a lean mean disto for an old computer, I'd go with
Debian every time.



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