Linux Decisions + Linux Operating System on Laptop

[Stubear]

KDE takes 12+ hours on my Athlon XP 1800+ and openoffice at least 24 hours.

If you are playing around with gentoo and have the disk space then you will want to install ccache - this will save you heaps of time if you have to recompile anything big.

Stu

[amrein]

<little joke>
I'm part of the processor protection agency! I fight against people who make processors suffering for their own pleasure. Trying to compile the same source code that million of people already compiled for the same final binary result is a shame! Those poor processors have so much better thing to do.

Some of them has burnt... bored to death. You are torturers!

</little joke>

[dz]

Stubear: KDE took about 8 hours on my machine.   I haven't done OpenOffice yet.

I purchased Crossover Office a while ago and so I get free upgrades.  Microsoft Office XP works out of the box with that so I'll use that.  I highly recommend Crossover Office for those that miss Photoshop and are in linux.  I do understand that GIMP is around, but Adobe Photoshop blows GIMP away and it works flawlessy in Crossover.  Same with Microsoft Office XP; both work excellent.

I use it for other things as well, but the sole reason for purchase was Adobe Photoshop.

It was money well spent.