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
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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Why not simply download more RAM?
You have to compile it which would take a few more years
oh, I forgot that everything needs to be compiled on gentoo.
I use arch btw.
The good thing about Arch nowadays is, it's not so bad when X breaks anymore.
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
Nice
Child's play
emerge -av libroffice
By the time that's done, it'll be time to update again
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
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 ...
Isn't 6.1 a bit outdated?
Was bleeding edge when they started the install
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.
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).