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I' very interested in experiences from others regarding Gentoo on small Netbooks such as the A110. --JanR 13:17, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

maybe someone could post a clean stick image with gentoo since the whole procedure maybe quite time consuming --franka 14:11, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

I could do that but this is not than small. Actually, my backup disk dump is 570 MB (gzip'ed) including OpenOffice 3.0, firefox, thunderbird, gimp, etc. Although it would be technically possible to offer this for download, the resulting system is not really usable as it also requires the chroot for software installation. The whole procedure is only time consuming if done on the A110. On a reasonable fast machine it is less than a day (I did it on a vmware on a 2.2 GHz AMD Athlon X2 4400+ using only one of the two cores) of compile time. Therefore, I do not see Gentoo on A110 as an "Install once and then only use it"-system. Instead, the advantage is that it is highly customizable if the build environment is available - this is also required for updates. --JanR 22:26, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

OK, one should note that installing software prectically requires a build system on a desktop. for the moment, I stick with SIDUX, then ... But with all drivers available in Gentoo (modem may be tricky there), it would be interesting to actually set up a Gentoo-A110. Probably one might end up with less than 1 GB SSD space. --franka 12:35, 8 December 2008 (UTC)