Kernel compile on Intel Atom

piratesmack · 08-29-2009, 05:55 PM

For anyone who owns an Intel Atom-based netbook and has compiled a kernel on it, how long did it take?

I've been thinking about buying a netbook and installing Slackware on it, but I compile a lot of stuff from source and am not sure how well the Atom will handle that.

MS3FGX · 08-29-2009, 08:31 PM

It certainly won't be the fastest machine on the block, but it can get the job done well enough. I don't have an Atom netbook, but my current server is based off of Atom. While I would rather compile on one of the big machines, I can certainly get away with building a kernel on the Atom board if I have to (it's much better than the old P2 I had in the server before, at least).