From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:06 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gl4v4e$tmj$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
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).
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I just remembered
at something about a TOAD!
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-20 16:46 Grant Edwards [this message]
2009-01-20 17:05 ` [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? Paul Hartman
2009-01-20 17:11 ` Nick Cunningham
2009-01-20 17:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-20 17:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2009-01-20 20:36 ` [gentoo-user] Anxiousness? [was:Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?] b.n.
2009-01-20 20:47 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-20 21:16 ` Nick Cunningham
2009-01-20 21:33 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-01-21 0:28 ` Peter Alfredsen
2009-01-20 18:01 ` [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? Dirk Heinrichs
2009-01-20 19:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-20 18:09 ` [gentoo-user] " kashani
2009-01-21 0:50 ` Dale
2009-01-24 14:40 ` Steven Lembark
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-20 17:05 Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-20 17:14 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-20 17:15 ` Alejandro
2009-01-20 17:22 ` Nick Cunningham
2009-01-20 17:32 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-20 18:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-01-20 18:53 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-01-24 14:43 ` Steven Lembark
2009-01-20 17:27 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-20 17:37 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-20 17:56 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-20 18:00 ` s3b4sm4gr1
2009-01-21 1:00 ` Dale
2009-01-24 14:53 ` Steven Lembark
2009-01-24 15:55 ` Dale
2009-01-21 0:54 ` Dale
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