Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop is slow.

2009-10-09 Thread Grant
I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro Now that it's working how do you like the screen, size, etc? That's one of the laptops I've been considering. You just have to admire and honest (Dell) company I had a Dell laptop a few years back.  It was the reason for maybe 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop is slow.

2009-10-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:33 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: kashani kashani-list at badapple.net writes: I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro Now that it's working how do you like the screen, size, etc? That's one of the laptops I've been considering. You just

[gentoo-user] Re: New laptop is slow.

2009-10-07 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: Can anyone suggest where to look? Could be lots of things. /usr/portage/sys-process contains some tools like htop and iotop. bonnie and bonnie++ can benchmark the HDrive. could be in the installation. Maybe sync and update a few times to ensure all

[gentoo-user] Re: New laptop is slow.

2009-10-07 Thread James
kashani kashani-list at badapple.net writes: I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro Now that it's working how do you like the screen, size, etc? That's one of the laptops I've been considering. You just have to admire and honest (Dell) company Poking around the 1720, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop is slow.

2009-10-07 Thread daid kahl
I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro Now that it's working how do you like the screen, size, etc? That's one of the laptops I've been considering. You just have to admire and honest (Dell) company I had a Dell laptop a few years back. It was the reason for maybe 2