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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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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 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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It's funny, I have read a lot of people complain that the binary is the |
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same way but compiling from source works. Interesting. The reason I |
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was told I should compile my own is because it was more stable than the |
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binary. |
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How do you figure that OOo from source is not supported? Almost |
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everything in Gentoo is from source. That's what Gentoo is, Linux From |
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Scratch with a neat package manager. Very neat I might add. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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