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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?
>
> - Grant
>
>   
Netbooks are designed to be underpowered, and as such, compiling on them
is  bit nuts. However, you could compile on a faster machine and export
this binary to the netbook, I've done something similar when updating an
old first generation iMac.