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

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote:
>> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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>> > 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
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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.