• rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      1 year 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

  • waka@feddit.deEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    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.deEnglish
      5·
      1 year 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 …

  • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.deEnglish
    4·
    1 year 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).