• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    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.com
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      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