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 1LPKRJ-0003Zb-RU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:31:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71939E059C; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:28:38 +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 18120E059C for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id CC13B21DB03 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:28:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD22E21D86A for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:28:03 +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 40290755 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:28:03 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:27:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.28r4; KDE/4.2.60; x86_64; ; ) References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <60a795cd0901200915g59b5436cvf1a837cc74dd176c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <60a795cd0901200915g59b5436cvf1a837cc74dd176c@mail.gmail.com> 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-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200901201827.59144.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.5 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 8c73de0d-c78a-4ca2-9cef-aa3cd9a96912 X-Archives-Hash: 0ea9ef2bc16d65febede2193d71a6cb2 On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote: > 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann > > > 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 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123104511608102&w=2