I have Gentoo running on a PentiumIII-450 system with 256 MB RAM. Sure, compiling lasts a bit (nearly 2 Days for KDE 3.2), but then the machine feels incredible responsive considering its age. Self-compiling is an advantage, for sure. Had Windows and other Linux Distros installed before, and all of them felt slower.
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PIII 450, 256MB RAM, compiler flags -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer.
Emerging complete kde 3.2 (not only kde-base!), including qt and kdelibs, took me about 2 days.
I have Gentoo running on a PentiumIII-450 system with 256 MB RAM. Sure, compiling lasts a bit (nearly 2 Days for KDE 3.2), but then the machine feels incredible responsive considering its age.
Self-compiling is an advantage, for sure. Had Windows and other Linux Distros installed before, and all of them felt slower.