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Embedded Gentoo?
An anonymous reader writes "Gentoo Linux may soon begin showing up in consumer gadgets, thanks to a new project creating an embedded version of Gentoo Linux. The year-old project has achieved preliminary releases on x86, MIPS, PPC, and ARM. The releases include native core system binaries, along with toolchains for native or cross-platform compiling. Native compiling, eh... considering it's Gentoo, how long would X take to compile on an iPAQ? :-)"
Flame stickers and cold cathodes, along with a plexiglass case window featuring a biohazard symbol will work wonders for you in the application speedup arena.
I've come for the woman, and your head.
last time I compiled FreeBSD all the way up, it was on a 200mhz PPro. Yes it takes a while, but on the order of hit-the-button-the go out the the bar, not hit the button-wait three paychecks.
I have to imagine the integer units on an ipaq are at least that of my old ppro, as must be the memory. The drive is probably slower though.
My last full build of FreeBSD took half an hour. Not bad, not bad at all. Of course it's a much faster machine than yours. When it's actually faster to cvsup and build than to download an install ISO image, why do the latter?
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!