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 1LPRMm-0002qX-Cx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:54:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 176DAE0391; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:54:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.246]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA88E0391 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:54:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so3712652rvf.46 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:54:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vp21ywyArRtJevlSTbEMIi8orthkrFt0B3Uqc+RsPos=; b=VdyP9wGNN0gIekg765oi6xwuOUZBLu+OqhLJcO7FnzscM7CMNmzUILfpam5PoR3FoQ eVYdAT+j24xo3ERsDvOH1lpB3OHwt7VU7i0kR3GNlZWco9nOg/7t6GYdklaGSMNwu6Jg ZA74Ct3ROkEmi0cbgWmV04gTyIsm1/HFj+JyE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cZaSGyUqlS3wn9PCnTrXDhv9FtBIv3MbdFNylVqZvWGALW9mlV4dkvclYrjr98MCQq CgPZBeb/wvXXdiY+4QOoogCMV9AdVx1/AbfvuhJCHmNH5upKbxcsyeU6BAKezy5d/U2E VQUf5wpLBwKsoz1QCYkLILisOe5W8/XqpjySQ= Received: by 10.141.194.21 with SMTP id w21mr3651543rvp.230.1232499286500; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:54:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.133.98? (dialup-4.231.133.98.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.133.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g14sm5563926rvb.0.2009.01.20.16.54.44 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:54:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49767252.1010908@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:54:42 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 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: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ef1d504f-183d-48c3-8ff4-ceb059ad6135 X-Archives-Hash: f49697f869ac0b3ee9d37566b5ba5849 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 :-) :-)