How long.... And some other Q's
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:23 am
Hello,
Downloaded and installed pro......
Worked very well and installed painlessly on my Focus box.
Problem i have is now I want a GUI, but I need to know how long its going to take to download and compile - I want to go with one of the lightweight ones with just a few peices of software - firefox and gaim are the only things I really want, plus a simple mail client.
Last night it took 3 hours to run emerge sync, so i have alredy invested some time in this install. Home seems like its going to come with a whole lot of fluff i dont really need.
What sort of time am i looking at to get a simple gui up and running? I use the xbox for gaming as well, so i dont want it out of action for the 60 hours that KDe seems to be going to take.
Anyway, its a standard Xbox and im on ISDN so downloads are gonna be 64k. Took 10 hours to get the Pro install Iso. Broadband is available in January 2005 and I dont want to wait that long for
Downloaded and installed pro......
Worked very well and installed painlessly on my Focus box.
Problem i have is now I want a GUI, but I need to know how long its going to take to download and compile - I want to go with one of the lightweight ones with just a few peices of software - firefox and gaim are the only things I really want, plus a simple mail client.
Last night it took 3 hours to run emerge sync, so i have alredy invested some time in this install. Home seems like its going to come with a whole lot of fluff i dont really need.
What sort of time am i looking at to get a simple gui up and running? I use the xbox for gaming as well, so i dont want it out of action for the 60 hours that KDe seems to be going to take.
Anyway, its a standard Xbox and im on ISDN so downloads are gonna be 64k. Took 10 hours to get the Pro install Iso. Broadband is available in January 2005 and I dont want to wait that long for