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On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 06:05:44PM -0700, Joseph wrote: |
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> I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would be too slow to compile anything. |
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> It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter version of Linux on it. |
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> What are my alternatives? |
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> I'll would like to run VPN, some browser on it and skype. |
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Hi |
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I ran Gentoo on my EEE PC 1000 some time ago. It wasn't that bad. building |
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stuff took some time but I even had suff like (then) openoffice, webkit-gtk and |
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chromium on it. |
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It'll take a while to build, but I was finde with that. It even felt more |
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performant than Ubuntu on the same device. |
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Judging from my current setup (no DE, dwm+other suckless stuff) I guess it's no |
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problem at all: skype is binary only anyways and there are at least two binary |
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browsers: firefox-bin and google-chrome. |
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I'd recomment to give Gentoo a try as long as you don't have other, |
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non-Gentoo-satisfiably motives... |
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WKR |
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Hinnerk |
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PS: I don't think that there is a lighter version of Linux that Gentoo if you |
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configure it for "lightness". |
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PPS: If you really want something else I can recommend Alpine Linux, though it |
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still isn't Gentoo. |
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