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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:42:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090312094213.1c45746e@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10903120045u6c373f3fs2a7a46c41c01f69e@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:45:16 -0700, Grant wrote:

> I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
> netbook and it's just so slow.  The only things I can think of to
> speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
> possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD.  Anyone running a netbook
> not excruciatingly slow?

I'm writing this on an Eee PC900 running Gentoo and it's fine apart
from occasional annoying pauses when Konqueror goes to sleep for a couple
of seconds while loading  pages. That could be down it writing its caches
to an encrypted home partition.

If anything, it's faster than I expected from the spec.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

A Smith & Weason beats Four Aces everytime.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-12  7:45 [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo? Grant
2009-03-12  7:49 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-03-12  9:42 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-03-12 14:03 ` Daniel da Veiga
2009-03-12 14:08 ` Dan Cowsill
2009-03-12 17:30 ` Florian Philipp
2009-03-12 19:13   ` Grant
2009-03-12 19:17     ` Justin
2009-03-12 19:36       ` Paul Hartman
2009-03-12 19:43         ` Justin
2009-03-12 20:12     ` Grant
2009-03-12 20:22       ` Paul Hartman
2009-03-14 10:31         ` Florian Philipp
2009-03-12 23:35       ` [gentoo-user] " James
2009-03-14 10:43       ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2009-03-14 15:09         ` Thanasis
2009-03-14 22:05           ` Florian Philipp
2009-03-12 19:41   ` Neil Bothwick
2009-03-12 21:47 ` Thanasis
2009-03-12 21:54   ` Justin
2009-03-12 21:56     ` Justin
2009-03-13  5:52     ` Thanasis
2009-03-13  6:01       ` Thanasis
2009-03-13  7:55 ` Justin

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