[mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

Scott Alfter mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org
Fri Mar 11 17:18:46 UTC 2005


On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:29:17PM -0800, Mathew Mrosko wrote:
> I run gentoo on my desktop and laptop, but for some reason I thought I'd try 
> knoppmyth for my first experiment... that was a mistake... I can't get 
> anything to work... will be gentoo VERY soon!  (The only thing is that 
> compiling on a 500 MHz machine takes a while!)

distcc is your friend.  A 233-MHz Pentium-MMX on which I built Gentoo from
stage 1 (to be a router, not a MythTV box) would probably still be compiling
if I hadn't been able to spread the work out across a bunch of much faster
machines.

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