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Gentoo_Turtle
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 Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:59 am Post subject: upgrade to xorg? |
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just a quick question:
i'm on a 233mhz laptop, ~1GB space HD left.
i want a relatively up-to-date system (to support later software)
should i upgrade from xfree to xorg? |
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svyatogor
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| As long as you are running descent XFree, I mean 4.x and better 4.3, the answer is no. Latest xorg didn't any significant changes to the X server. They are extected in new xorg release, but I'm afraid various shadows, transparencies, etc will need much more than 233 mhz. |
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Muso
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miqorz
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:05 am Post subject: |
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SHOULD you? Yes.
CAN you? No.
Your specs and hard drive space are very unrealistic. |
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theBlackDragon
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| miqorz wrote: | SHOULD you? Yes.
CAN you? No.
Your specs and hard drive space are very unrealistic. |
He can, it'll take some time but it's doable, I've already done it with less hard disk space and processor speed. Though I'd certainly recommend using distcc for this...
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miqorz
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought Xorg needed more than a gig just for build space? |
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theBlackDragon
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| miqorz wrote: | | I thought Xorg needed more than a gig just for build space? |
One gig should do, though just barely.
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dvang
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| theBlackDragon wrote: | | miqorz wrote: | SHOULD you? Yes.
CAN you? No.
Your specs and hard drive space are very unrealistic. |
He can, it'll take some time but it's doable, I've already done it with less hard disk space and processor speed. Though I'd certainly recommend using distcc for this... |
i thought that an xorg/xfree emerge does not make use of distcc? |
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theBlackDragon
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| dvang wrote: | | theBlackDragon wrote: | | miqorz wrote: | SHOULD you? Yes.
CAN you? No.
Your specs and hard drive space are very unrealistic. |
He can, it'll take some time but it's doable, I've already done it with less hard disk space and processor speed. Though I'd certainly recommend using distcc for this... |
i thought that an xorg/xfree emerge does not make use of distcc? |
Most of the time it didn't it seemed, though I had the impression it had used distcc at certain point, this is speculation though as I didn't watch my logs while installing on that machine...
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NightMonkey
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Actually, to be specific, xorg will use distcc, but only one job (even if you have -j n set in /etc/make.conf). So, for this particular instance, distcc will help, by offloading the compilation to a (hopefully) faster host.
To make sure it works, just list the fastest host first in your distcc hosts list, like so:
| Code: | | distcc-config --set-hosts "fasthost okhost localhost" |
Have fun!
| dvang wrote: | | theBlackDragon wrote: | | miqorz wrote: | SHOULD you? Yes.
CAN you? No.
Your specs and hard drive space are very unrealistic. |
He can, it'll take some time but it's doable, I've already done it with less hard disk space and processor speed. Though I'd certainly recommend using distcc for this... |
i thought that an xorg/xfree emerge does not make use of distcc? |
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