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 1LhleW-0006sf-9g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:12:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6644E02B2; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F81E02B2 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so642376ywq.46 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:08:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DgmSlpIHMf63KWiNBfE/JCpFE7BGbDXoiCkUbsc/Pcs=; b=Of8I1KmVe5EZGHTermuOHlcTZLB7FQz13q59V4+yafY0JQEnfOpLCBU040aZGGbA45 II8hGFDQn8etC5SEsBwYSPYnYVM7UHhAHzIJwOjxTpJd7F3rjSH3H9o5TN7ajLAtBPuu P9hREv4gWP2BZOleUClGf2P7BkDaQH3dSTXpo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZZAEHxMcSETCLioVkQlbzifEHZN71oWMhykvIK18QQmID2oDEvGvY35AadUkK5mfg2 22uODSJahvdkfddCM/DY07ilu5hrQ3a1aT7F4riIrWobGswGn75lAUWqEEmZt5BCxgJs 5HfACio1RQ9Z9QN1muSA9qyBJ1xFHrpeKG3mI= 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 Received: by 10.150.218.10 with SMTP id q10mr88709ybg.11.1236866925642; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:08:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10903120045u6c373f3fs2a7a46c41c01f69e@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10903120045u6c373f3fs2a7a46c41c01f69e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:08:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4ef07b8c0903120708h37d64e2akeceb93aa84f4a7db@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo? From: Dan Cowsill To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1d0b662e-bf6a-4018-a22d-8e6e97474e6e X-Archives-Hash: 0fee066e3b9b446323747d4fce7f75a4 On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Grant wrote: > I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One > netbook and it's just so slow. =A0The 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. =A0Anyone running a netbook > not excruciatingly slow? > > - Grant > > Yeah, Gentoo can be a big O/S if you let it. I recently installed Gentoo on an eee 701 with 512M RAM and the 8 GB SSD. I decided to use the minimal USE flag with a few exceptions. This keeps the size of X11 down and affects a few other packages in that vein. Also, I used XFCE in place of Gnome. You can still have Gnome apps on it (if you are willing to commit the extra disk space) and the memory foot print is much smaller. I used ccache to help out with compile times, so even on the 500MHz processor, it still took less than a day to slap X11 together. Have a specific idea in mind for what you want the computer to be used for. My eee does three or four things really well and that's it. Some may say it's archaic, but I thought it was a great learning experience. That said, installing Gentoo on an eee 701 was such an incredible pain in the ass... Not for the faint of heart. D