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 1LPKZn-0004A0-GN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:39:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC3A4E04B6; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.226]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873C9E04B7 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so1574019rvb.2 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:37:42 -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=0/OS/P1Y8nKN5YfKlFy+VF381rU4TacNnvA8mN4K1QU=; b=Du0UmjYPnQJchjx8J2wiagVC3cWNq0WLcsnl4USfTHEA6AIrrzMUwQYga2dQ4g3sop OZ8ZQULjsFETngjqzi9UsLpFFQ2icsJVVJcT32FOWXyD1/PeudaWFoKURqpeNtf1Kd7U tpei8233eCFQAdFk/4x6Pblmj3FGMfe8zEzxQ= 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=R6kTvWgLuoPisgdvVLMLRj9k+zeaz1WzBAMt4ZiobAOj6pbNV3SxfDQKr1TxCtLP40 oCN6dsspbAP7v1kUenpyWP+gvuKGCDAiWkQwi9Mzwq8HvOuQHs5xqtvnoDsnAqgaoqwI Kl7R8d/b0t3FtwJHWaIqm9+Vp6N92bHLkH+bM= 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 10.141.28.2 with SMTP id f2mr783587rvj.170.1232473062517; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:37:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200901201827.59144.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <60a795cd0901200915g59b5436cvf1a837cc74dd176c@mail.gmail.com> <200901201827.59144.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:37:42 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: baff30335527be5f Message-ID: <58965d8a0901200937w79cd1f82m510024b89762fe47@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: 2048bc12-2732-4b18-808b-585109a4d5b4 X-Archives-Hash: 6005cf6a858586a609bce0dcff11af8b On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote: >> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> > 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 > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123104511608102&w=2 > > > > 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.