From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LhhQl-0004KY-F4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:42:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7890DE023E; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43BA3E023E for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 72A8731E65C for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:42:20 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:42:13 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo? Message-ID: <20090312094213.1c45746e@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10903120045u6c373f3fs2a7a46c41c01f69e@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10903120045u6c373f3fs2a7a46c41c01f69e@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs7 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/WhwuIxV8qOm_Mjzm4TmpRRn"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: b78d59d3-89ea-46f4-a7da-692a1c1566f3 X-Archives-Hash: d0c4a66d2df88c455ca40b7ec7a20c26 --Sig_/WhwuIxV8qOm_Mjzm4TmpRRn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick A Smith & Weason beats Four Aces everytime. --Sig_/WhwuIxV8qOm_Mjzm4TmpRRn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm42PoACgkQum4al0N1GQNrxQCgtFyKNk08pjq3sHI35TVihtlG M+cAn3MLGI3rtM9a7DTJgSx0moHXh4vs =ZVmz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/WhwuIxV8qOm_Mjzm4TmpRRn--