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* [gentoo-user]  Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
@ 2009-01-20 16:46 Grant Edwards
  2009-01-20 17:05 ` Paul Hartman
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  0 siblings, 6 replies; 27+ messages in thread
From: Grant Edwards @ 2009-01-20 16:46 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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            




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* Re: [gentoo-user]  Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
@ 2009-01-20 17:05 Volker Armin Hemmann
  2009-01-20 17:15 ` Alejandro
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 27+ messages in thread
From: Volker Armin Hemmann @ 2009-01-20 17:05 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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.




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2009-01-20 16:46 [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? Grant Edwards
2009-01-20 17:05 ` 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
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2009-01-20 17:05 Volker Armin Hemmann
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 19:37         ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-21 19:01           ` Daniel Troeder
2009-01-20 19:20       ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-21 15:57         ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-20 17:37   ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-20 17:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-20 17:37   ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-20 17:56     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-20 18:00       ` s3b4sm4gr1
2009-01-20 19:23         ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-21  1:00         ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-01-24 14:53           ` Steven Lembark
2009-01-24 15:47             ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-21  0:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-01-21  2:18   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-21  3:28     ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-21  3:49       ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-21  4:02         ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-21  3:39     ` Shawn Haggett

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