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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:24 am    Post subject: Gentoo on PIII? Reply with quote

Good morning.
I have an old PC with CPU PIII at 1,7 MHz.
Can I install gentoo, in order to administrate backend of webpages?
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:59 am    Post subject: Re: Gentoo on PIII? Reply with quote

artonweb wrote:
Good morning.
I have an old PC with CPU PIII at 1,7 MHz.
Can I install gentoo, in order to administrate backend of webpages?
Long time ago - IIRC in 2002 - I run Gentoo on a P3 (were my first steps I think) - and I'm sure you can install it - but I'm completely unsure, how many P3 bugs you will be experiencing with modern software packages.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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[..]how many P3 bugs you will be experiencing with modern software packages.

What bugs are you referring to?

Most binary distros are still using i486 (maybe i586 or i686 if you're lucky), so there should not be any issue. PentiumIII is rather old, therefore I expect the compiler to build stable binaries, even with using -march=native.


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I have an old PC with CPU PIII at 1,7 MHz.
Can I install gentoo, in order to administrate backend of webpages?

Possible for sure, but do not expect any wonders in speed, build wise and runtime wise. IIRC you'll get about the same speed out of Intel Atom.
depending on what kind of applications you want to run, the amount of ram and disk space might also be of interest.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Until fairly recently, I had Gentoo running on a 90MHz P1 with 128MiB of RAM. It had the horsepower to work fairly well as my home router machine. No GUI, of course.

But, a P3? Piece of cake!

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have gentoo running on a 800 Mhz PIII with 512 Mb of ram. It's used as router, web server, mail server and network proxy.
For compiling you can use distcc and distribute the load to other machines in the network.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I run Gentoo on my ThinkPad T23 with 512MB of RAM - it's my main laptop.
It's reaching the end of its life not because of Gentoo, but because modern
Linux distros need a more powerful video driver than the T23s Savage.
Given 512MB or more of RAM a PIII is no problem; I rebuilt the system
only a month or so ago.

(You may have a problem compiling GCC - check Bugzilla. The answer is
to set mtype to i686 in /etc/portage/make.conf for that compile.)

Will
(Oh, and it can't handle YouTube - but that again is the video chip.)


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

From 2002 to 2007 I sported a Thinkpad T23 with Gentoo on it. It will work pretty well as long as you don't expect it to be a playing rig or a CAD workstation.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you for your response.
I will try to install :D :D
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