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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One |
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> netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to |
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> speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's |
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> possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook |
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> not excruciatingly slow? |
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> - Grant |
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Yeah, Gentoo can be a big O/S if you let it. I recently installed |
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Gentoo on an eee 701 with 512M RAM and the 8 GB SSD. I decided to use |
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the minimal USE flag with a few exceptions. This keeps the size of |
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X11 down and affects a few other packages in that vein. Also, I used |
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XFCE in place of Gnome. You can still have Gnome apps on it (if you |
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are willing to commit the extra disk space) and the memory foot print |
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is much smaller. I used ccache to help out with compile times, so |
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even on the 500MHz processor, it still took less than a day to slap |
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X11 together. |
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Have a specific idea in mind for what you want the computer to be used |
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for. My eee does three or four things really well and that's it. |
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Some may say it's archaic, but I thought it was a great learning |
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experience. That said, installing Gentoo on an eee 701 was such an |
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incredible pain in the ass... Not for the faint of heart. |
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