On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> 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 > >
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