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 1LPKCU-0002Dn-SZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:15:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB2B3E04A3; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:14:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.243]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A59E04A3 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so3525259rvf.46 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:14:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=swwjHJNrkaJcAG50xj+npd8u00i10j+fRcfFbFo8Vxw=; b=Od1bGDsdNdvhqHrPmi39BCrAWuEURpUBvXBLNV4KFljLObRReJACombHOnxFf3R5Z3 ilfZh1xru1gog0+RZl83VENzBFKOl9xTNeEYEmEFQmud1X6+U1hL6pv/p4nLthCzFGXt QA3BoiOQDhkRd4pnnR6wWZBbBKp6E3kC1RlEw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=UyC74CiOJYwWqNjU2wm+a8ppR7iakY8J82zFm0dpC5a7JDwQ5iPYDrYNNxIdRevBUL Y9hpuRA5mftoBepvOOD8ligbZx7cEcNhBn1CQy3a++8LjqQF5NZ/iw2uJCF1+T1eB2j/ R32m/egCbK8irLFweVFJ83OondpaK3p6Ewkqk= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.133.14 with SMTP id k14mr3488856rvn.258.1232471642587; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:14:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:14:02 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dce561a84bc05f1a Message-ID: <58965d8a0901200914l5170a19ahe0849639a41e4ea4@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5bd52390-ef1b-4412-b0de-378338b65ea1 X-Archives-Hash: 1da9fccecd69247b82dbebc8bd0321e8 On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM, 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. OOo from source uses the Go-Oo.org patch set, the binary does not (AFAIK) but, yes, watching compile die after an hour (or 20) is no fun :P