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

[Alejandro <elcorreodeale@gmail.com>]

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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

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