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 1LPKEo-0002QJ-EW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:18:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 734A2E0504; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.145]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9705EE0504 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so367767eyg.10 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:15:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=hRaGcxugwiKXi0TegpuKBO+SN90YX6G3NrKc9lA9Zr4=; b=Y+ZIP2HVaHgNkt0bOI8Z83fToz4KYHbFSzcw8/Z1PzAOLzsZGY7+jF8h0IHJLeNSky zStOqnSI/VD3EJwIcU3eyl99X63TBzRhBgiajE54dhQjlgicjdaXjkVWZS3YuDc6WoBO r4gMDaOa90xlyz7qDRyldeEQDZea4GX5J6x+I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=s2EUUNqe1TFMACSyXIqVPxylHMgjSmLrgv9zH8e6Afdw/YzpcqQOX6MRwYdFXmjXNr SNUuAazCa7jFpLRmK3ns+8nSh8djUofcd9MmC2A7WznXykUZq/xA5k5YWzy7N0AQdWwE n2GkJkzUdAZKYnENCdSUVd5dWjuBvbRQzNat4= Received: by 10.210.16.10 with SMTP id 10mr3121001ebp.131.1232471749146; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:15:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.102.3 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:15:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <60a795cd0901200915g59b5436cvf1a837cc74dd176c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:15:49 -0200 From: Alejandro To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? In-Reply-To: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> 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 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_26339_25431345.1232471749127" References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: af26df2b-db32-4ecf-84a7-a9f99bf63928 X-Archives-Hash: 5a896ef4a5ae3da8b6d7a96d392b14bb ------=_Part_26339_25431345.1232471749127 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 ------=_Part_26339_25431345.1232471749127 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

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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