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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>   

It's funny, I have read a lot of people complain that the binary is the
same way but compiling from source works.  Interesting.  The reason I
was told I should compile my own is because it was more stable than the
binary. 

How do you figure that OOo from source is not supported?  Almost
everything in Gentoo is from source.  That's what Gentoo is, Linux From
Scratch with a neat package manager. Very neat I might add.

Dale

:-)  :-)