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2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> |
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> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old |
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> > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron |
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> > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI |
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> > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's |
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> > got a decent hard drive (160GB). |
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> > I was wondering if there were any particular tips/tricks for |
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> > getting the best performance out of such a machine. It's to be |
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> > used for basic word processing and a few games. Hopefully the |
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> > nVidia 6200 will allow OpenGL to run fast enough for something |
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> > like TuxRacer. |
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> > I chose XFCE for the desktop along with both Abiword and |
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> > OpenOffice. I probably should have installed OOo from a binary |
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> > package, but I decided to build it just to see how long it |
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> > would take (so far it's at about 26 hours and counting). |
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> if you don't need any special features, kde+koffice needs less ram than |
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> xfce+openoffice. |
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> And installing ooo from source is unsupport. The build breaks all the time |
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> and |
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> you don't get anything from it. All it does is starting a second faster. It |
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> does not need less ram nor does it run faster. |
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"installing ooo from source is unsupport" How is this? Maybe you |
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missundertand i think he run emerge openoffice and not openoffice-bin |