From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LPK45-0001YG-KD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:07:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 550D0E0465; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA3DE0465 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:06:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 11E0121D986 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:06:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8FB521D982 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:05:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from [139.174.197.94] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.11) with ESMTPSA id 40289900 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:05:59 +0100 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? From: Volker Armin Hemmann Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:05:58 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.5 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 3a108f3b-bf47-4eeb-91c5-4642a52bbbcd X-Archives-Hash: 9d74e06e1eb4923ce2cab5a33b7223b4 On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's > got a decent hard drive (160GB). > > I was wondering if there were any particular tips/tricks for > getting the best performance out of such a machine. It's to be > used for basic word processing and a few games. Hopefully the > nVidia 6200 will allow OpenGL to run fast enough for something > like TuxRacer. > > I chose XFCE for the desktop along with both Abiword and > OpenOffice. I probably should have installed OOo from a binary > package, but I decided to build it just to see how long it > would take (so far it's at about 26 hours and counting). if you don't need any special features, kde+koffice needs less ram than xfce+openoffice. And installing ooo from source is unsupport. The build breaks all the time and you don't get anything from it. All it does is starting a second faster. It does not need less ram nor does it run faster.