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Hehe, it was basically an intel p3 with a nvidia gpu, dvd drive, and an ide/pata harddrive. In a sense, it was a standard pc with everything soldered to the board (like how a lot of laptops are now-a-

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run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox.

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Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).

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I mean many routers can be flashed with OpenWrt, but, pfsense and openwrt are all software-based. I was talking about physical firewall options . I am just wondering if they even exist.

Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides may

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