Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Saphirus Sage <saphirus497@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:49:54
Message-Id: 49B8BE9E.5010304@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo? by Grant
1 Grant wrote:
2 > I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
3 > netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
4 > speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
5 > possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook
6 > not excruciatingly slow?
7 >
8 > - Grant
9 >
10 >
11 Netbooks are designed to be underpowered, and as such, compiling on them
12 is bit nuts. However, you could compile on a faster machine and export
13 this binary to the netbook, I've done something similar when updating an
14 old first generation iMac.