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ducnguyenit36 n00b
Joined: 10 Jan 2018 Posts: 3 Location: Viet nam
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 3:40 pm Post subject: should I install gentoo in my laptop? |
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hi I am a newbie, I have a laptop dell core i7 4500U 1,8GHZ , 2 core 4 thread, is it slow with compile ?. Thanks and sorry if my english is not good _________________ I'm a newbie |
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Dr.Willy Guru
Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 547 Location: NRW, Germany
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 3:59 pm Post subject: Re: should I install gentoo in my laptop? |
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ducnguyenit36 wrote: | I have a laptop dell core i7 4500U 1,8GHZ , 2 core 4 thread, is it slow with compile ? |
Nah, that's fine. |
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audiodef Watchman
Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 6639 Location: The soundosphere
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szczerb Veteran
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 1709 Location: Poland => Lodz
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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I used to use it on waaay slower hardware.
As a side note, I find it amusing that there are 2c/4t 1.8GHz SKUs labeled as i7 |
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JWJones n00b
Joined: 11 Jan 2015 Posts: 19 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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I have Gentoo installed on my ThinkPad T61 (Core2 Duo) with 8GB RAM. Pretty basic setup, however, with fvwm, lightweight apps, Firefox, GIMP, etc. Runs fast and lean, about 80MB RAM idling on a fresh boot. |
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audiodef Watchman
Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 6639 Location: The soundosphere
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C5ace Guru
Joined: 23 Dec 2013 Posts: 472 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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I installed and maintain Gentoo on 19 laptops. They all run Xfce Open Office, Firefox and Thunderbird.
The slowest of the laptop is a very old Toshiba with a single core Intel mobile processor and 512MB RAM and 120GB. This one takes a whole weekend to 'emerge -e @world'. |
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mimosinnet l33t
Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 713 Location: Barcelona, Spain
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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C5ace wrote: | This one takes a whole weekend to 'emerge -e @world'. |
I recommend having a binhost to emerge packages for boxes with slow processors. This allows updating a Core2 Duo server or an old laptop in no time . _________________ Please add [solved] to the initial post's subject line if you feel your problem is resolved.
Take care of the community answering unanswered posts. |
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C5ace Guru
Joined: 23 Dec 2013 Posts: 472 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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mimosinnet wrote: | C5ace wrote: | This one takes a whole weekend to 'emerge -e @world'. |
I recommend having a binhost to emerge packages for boxes with slow processors. This allows updating a Core2 Duo server or an old laptop in no time . |
Using binhost is not practical for me.
I use 'emerge -av @world'. Check that there are no blockers, etc. Then start on Friday afternoon and it's done when I get back to the office on Monday morning. |
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Suicidal l33t
Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 959 Location: /dev/null
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:35 am Post subject: |
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I have it installed on a 9 year old Dell M6500. Certain things take a bit like rust qtwebkit. Honestly the limiting factor for me is ram not processor as some c++ threads require 2G, so I ave to cut MAKEOPTS to -j4 |
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matt_w Apprentice
Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 233 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:49 am Post subject: |
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Just installed on a laptop I bought in 2009: core i5 2.26, 8GB ram - no issues whatsoever with compilation speeds. Except qt packages. So, I have "-qt5 -qt4" as part of my USE_FLAGS.
Other than that, just use binaries for larger apps like firefox, chromium, or libreoffice. |
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bandreabis Advocate
Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 2490 Location: イタリアのロディで
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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used to drive kde on a 2006 PC, no binary ever.
Yes, Now i7 SSD 16GB 2016 PC... {EDIT: fucking damned Optimus PC } _________________ Il numero di post non fa di me un esperto! Anzi! |
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