"less than ideal" is an understatement.  I tried to install Gentoo on a PIII-500 and it took a week of evenings to keep checing on it and approving different items and setting USE flags, etc.  I wanted to say I'd done it, so I did and I hated it.  I have no fond memories of looking back on it or anything other than it was a complete waste of time and electricity.
<br><br>Tons of reading, tons of little tweaker custom command lines to get things to work.&nbsp; In the end, no faster or no more useable than a Debian server install or any other distro that took only one evening.<br><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy Fowler</b> &lt;&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
&lt;snip&gt;<br><br>I would have to agree that on a slower server, building from source is<br>less than ideal. However, you can always do it during off-peak hours. If<br>you kill the emerge process, you can always start it back up where it
<br>left off with the `emerge --resume`.<br>&lt;snip&gt;<br><br>Gentoo &quot;Best Practices&quot;<br><a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Maintain_Gentoo_-_%22Best_Practices%22">http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Maintain_Gentoo_-_%22Best_Practices%22
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