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 1LPL2b-0006ZV-QA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:09:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D018E0735; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A90EE0735 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.21.229.207] (fa0-1-wlan-rtr.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.49.5]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE2D715001A for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:09:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49761348.1070003@badapple.net> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:09:12 -0800 From: kashani User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fe8441d0-4c21-4ffa-9892-17e5f3bfe4d0 X-Archives-Hash: e7d60af1778014abe9ee1c5c3a283fe3 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). > I usually just pull the drive and put it in a faster computer. Build the OS with conservative CFLAGs and swap the drive back when done. I've rarely had issues with this. kashani