Left by Rawhide

Posted Jul 17, 2012 10:29 UTC (Tue) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: Left by Rawhide by nikarul
Parent article: Left by Rawhide

> Obviously this requires a system which good CPU and memory resources for the amount of package building you do.

I run Gentoo on my atom boxes (netbook, nettop). It works fine. (Anecdotally, better [faster/cooler] than prebuilt distros, perhaps due to -Os -march=atom Could be confirmation bias, though). Just don't expect huge things (kernel, mozilla, LibreOffice) to compile instantly.