On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > I'm about to get a new laptop and I was wondering whether somebody could comment on > the usability of Gentoo on a laptop system. > I can see two arguments: > - laptop with little resources - customization of gentoo might be advantagous ... > - laptop with little resources - all that compiling will kill you! > My first ever gentoo install was on this 1ghz, 128mb laptop. I did a stage 1 install, it took a while, and with hind sight I would have left a kde compile to much later (especially as I am a gnome user at heart). IIRC it took about 5 days to install, but i did have to work sleep and annoy the kids. But now i have a laptop that gives the impression of running quicker though i havent benchmarked anything
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