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

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2009/1/21 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>

> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > 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>
> > >>
> > >> > 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.
>
> openoffice 3 isn't better.. yeah, it compiles in 64bit - sometimes.
>
>
>
You should consider using LXDE as DE, which is designed for low memory and
CPU usage...

I'm currently using it on a Celeron Coppermine @ 600Mhz with 256 of PC133
RAM and it goes fine, among with abiword, gnumeric and claws-mail for the
office work, consonance for music playing, and pidgin and conspire for
Instant Messaging...

Regards...


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