Have run Gentoo on my ol' Dell Inspiron 8800 (600Mhz celeron) for quite a while now and have had zero issues.
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Johnny Andersson wrote: > I'm getting a laptop soon. Not the latest model, but reasonably useable > (aiming for somewhere around 800 MHz, 256 meg). > > I'm using Gentoo on my desktop machine and I like it. I wonder if any of you > have opinions on Gentoo on a laptop. I realize that the usual > set-aside-a-day-to-compile-kde rules apply, but other than that, is Gentoo a > wise choise for laptops? My theory is that as Gentoo is very customizable, > and as you _have_ to compile your own kernel, the odds that you're gonna get > your hardware working is good. > > Any comments? Or does anyone have good experiences with other distros on > laptops? > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- Larry Herzog Jr. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain ZRXOA #1029 conceit, but in humility consider others [EMAIL PROTECTED] better than yourselves." - Philippians 2:3 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
