old dogs...new tricks?

[Dan Burcaw]

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 19:10, r.sesser wrote:
> Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> > PS -- I don't think there is a mini-Linux version for PPC, but it 
> > shouldn't be impossible to do (start with YDL and throw out anything 
> > you don't need).   Set up a web server (another thing to do with an 
> > "obsolete" machine) and make it available to the world.  Looks good on 
> > a resume! 
> 
> I wouldn't recommend YDL for a mini-Linux setup. I just installed Gentoo 
> (www.gentoo.org) and this is as close to LFS as it gets for the PPC (me 
> thinks). It's a great concept and you learn a lot from the process. It 
> does take a while to compile an entire system (eg. KDE 3.1 alone took 
> around 36hrs to build on my G4 733 with gcc 3.2.1), but the benefits 
> from a system that's compiled on your own hardware is pretty 
> slick...fast too.

We're actually thinking about doing a slimmed down mini-distro
(compatible with the mainline distro) that is intended for OldWorld
hardware. Thoughts?