The Dangers of Gentoo Linux on a Slow System
When I bought my PS3, it was under the assumption that I would use it as a computer, because while I do have 300EURs to blow on a PS3, I certainly don’t have 600EURs to spend on a good machine with at least 8GBs of RAM and four cores. And on top of that I need a monitor as well.
So I’ve been compiling shit under Gentoo PS3 for about 12 hours now and I was setting up a virtual machine to distcc+cross compile on. I found the 1.6GHz Core Duo much faster at compiling than the PS3. I also found myself wishing for a more powerful quad core system which had enough to compile entire source trees from RAM.
Then I realized that Gentoo PS3 was making me wish for more than I had… again. Which was what buying the PS3 was all about. I got a PS1, PS2, PS3 and a computer all in one. Duh, should be more than satisfied by now.
EDIT: BTW I love Gentoo Linux, have been using it since 2004, back then I was on a VIA C3 and things took days to compile. It looked like it was the same for the PS3, but since the PS3 is also a game machine, I hate to waste my time compiling. And my god, it does take days to get a nice xfce4/X11 environment running too. I guess in-order really isn’t that great.
