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 1LPKq3-0005QO-K9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:56:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55851E0515; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:56:32 +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 2EBBEE0515 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id C849A20A98E for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:56:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A67208B52 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:56:30 +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 40293040 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:56:30 +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 18:56:24 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.28r4; KDE/4.2.60; x86_64; ; ) References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200901201827.59144.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <58965d8a0901200937w79cd1f82m510024b89762fe47@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0901200937w79cd1f82m510024b89762fe47@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-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200901201856.25208.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.5 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: a70362ae-0f59-4a91-b746-18e4d2ec47ef X-Archives-Hash: 9371f5055642f30cc5de73971143b346 On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > 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 > > 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.