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 1LPJkN-00080r-SX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 127E1E01D6; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBC2E018D for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB86646A6 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.31 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.31 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.222, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zWPwe-r7OJK3 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50C964225 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LPJjz-0005JL-Et for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:15 +0000 Received: from 64.251.14.41 ([64.251.14.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:15 +0000 Received: from grante by 64.251.14.41 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.251.14.41 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9962a440-78ef-4bd8-be36-13319f9eeb49 X-Archives-Hash: efee90a0775d5c2717b939bbd5a1bbad 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! visi.com