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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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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