Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote:
> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
>
> > 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.
>
> "installing ooo from source is unsupport" How is this? Maybe you
> missundertand i think he run emerge openoffice and not openoffice-bin

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