On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 06:05:44PM -0700, Joseph wrote: > I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would > be too slow to compile anything. > It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter > version of Linux on it. > What are my alternatives? > > I'll would like to run VPN, some browser on it and skype.
Hi I ran Gentoo on my EEE PC 1000 some time ago. It wasn't that bad. building stuff took some time but I even had suff like (then) openoffice, webkit-gtk and chromium on it. It'll take a while to build, but I was finde with that. It even felt more performant than Ubuntu on the same device. Judging from my current setup (no DE, dwm+other suckless stuff) I guess it's no problem at all: skype is binary only anyways and there are at least two binary browsers: firefox-bin and google-chrome. I'd recomment to give Gentoo a try as long as you don't have other, non-Gentoo-satisfiably motives... WKR Hinnerk PS: I don't think that there is a lighter version of Linux that Gentoo if you configure it for "lightness". PPS: If you really want something else I can recommend Alpine Linux, though it still isn't Gentoo.
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