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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Gentoo on a netbook with an intel atom on less than 1GiB ram

I'm going to turn 30 before that thing has a functioning browser. It cost them 2 months when they decided neofetch was worth it for the meme

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.de 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why not simply download more RAM?

[–] Solaris1789@jlai.lu 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have to compile it which would take a few more years

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

oh, I forgot that everything needs to be compiled on gentoo.

I use arch btw.

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The good thing about Arch nowadays is, it's not so bad when X breaks anymore.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

I installed gentoo on one of my old computers and it took two days of kernel compilation. When I got to the dwm desktop I played some doom and decided the computer will just work as a central server as it was just too old and the cpu couldn't keep up with firefox in binary form.

After that I just installed Alpine and got a similar, albeit slow, performance

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nice

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

Child's play

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 20 points 11 months ago

emerge -av libroffice

By the time that's done, it'll be time to update again

[–] waka@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gentoo... oh my. I vividly remember installing it as Stage 1 on a then-budget Laptop in 2003 or so. Sure, great performance for what that device was capable of. But 24 hours compiling time until I had a desktop... Oh and all the fun of dependency resolving with emerge. @OP, alternative title:

hell

[–] megrania@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

Hehe, back in the days I was in a similar situation, and I gave a harddisk to a friend who had a more powerful PC, so he could cross-compile everything onto the harddisk. Sneaker-network compilation ...

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Isn't 6.1 a bit outdated?

[–] nerdovic@feddit.de 30 points 11 months ago

Was bleeding edge when they started the install

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There are two possibilities here:

  • OP did really take the time to compile a whole OS in a 10 yo atom CPU and 1 GB of RAM.
  • or they cross-compiled with a modern machine making the process orders of magnitude less painful.

Either way, pretty cool photo.

[–] deadlock@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

I also still have one of those. CPU is the bottleneck, although upgrading to 2GB RAM is a no-brainer IMHO (more isn't supported if I remember correctly). SSD upgrade barely does anything, except if the old HDD is crapping out anyway.

I run bunsenlabs on it. Works well. I watch YouTube on it for workouts. Doing that in Firefox is an experience, but with feetube it runs alright (480p).