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artonweb n00b
Joined: 04 Feb 2013 Posts: 2 Location: Greece
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:24 am Post subject: Gentoo on PIII? |
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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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toralf Developer
Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 3922 Location: Hamburg
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:59 am Post subject: Re: Gentoo on PIII? |
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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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Veldrin Veteran
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:37 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | [..]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.
Quote: | 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. _________________ read the portage output!
If my answer is too concise, ask for an explanation. |
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10589 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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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!
- John _________________ I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters. |
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soka Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 99 Location: Argentina
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 11:25 am Post subject: |
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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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cwr Veteran
Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1969
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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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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pilla Bodhisattva
Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Posts: 7729 Location: Underworld
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:39 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ "I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept." -- Calvin |
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artonweb n00b
Joined: 04 Feb 2013 Posts: 2 Location: Greece
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:43 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for your response.
I will try to install |
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