Can anything be done to speed up Roundcube on a Celeron 700 with 512MB RAM (maxed out) running Gentoo Linux? We're using the Chrome browser and the CPU is 95% idle when no one is logged into X. I'm getting reports of 30+ seconds to open an email.
no - you should be happy that it runs at all on hardware outperfored by years old smartphones
What are the Roundcube recommended minimum specs?
i don't know
but a 700 MHz/512 MB machine is far below the minimum specs of any modern operating system at all - hence you even get not a Fedora/Ubuntu installer started full featured on it
I don't mean to call you foolish but I think that's a foolish statement. I use Gentoo which is a modern OS and the system in question surpasses the published hardware requirements for Gentoo on x86:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc...
- Grant