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

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

On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123104511608102&w=2
>
> I think that (old) mask quoted in that person's message is because
> OpenOffice before 2.0.4 did not support 64-bit compiling at all.

openoffice 3 isn't better.. yeah, it compiles in 64bit - sometimes.