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I've also used -O2 on my Pentium 2 Celeron system without any problems. |
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I used to run -Os back on my Pentium 200Mhz days, and that works fine |
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too ;). |
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Honestly, however I never did any benchmarking between the different -O |
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settings on any of these machines, so I'm not sure they were the best |
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setting to use. These were recommendations I'd gotten from the forums. |
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Caveat: there is no GUI involved on either of these systems, just |
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headless servers. |
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Thanks, |
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Brian |
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Chris Frederick wrote: |
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> Karl Huysmans wrote: |
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>> Hi All, |
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>> A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell |
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>> laptop |
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>> he got for free. |
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>> The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will |
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>> be used |
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>> by his young children. |
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>> I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very |
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>> usefull stuff for kids, but it really runs too slow on this machine. |
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>> So I was thinking Gentoo, optimized for PII, I guess -Os would be a good |
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>> option for this little machine. Any thoughts anyone? |
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>> What about the desktop? I guess Gnome or KDE is not really the best |
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>> choice. |
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>> But what else could I use? Of course, it's for kids, so I have to be |
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>> able to |
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>> make it look nice :-) What would be a good window manager? File manager? |
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>> Other applications that help to keep it lean an fast? |
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>> Anyone with any experience building such a system under Gentoo? |
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>> Thank you |
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>> |
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>> Karl |
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> |
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> I've got an old NEC and Thinkpad that I use for VNC clients to my |
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> server. I've also loaded a "bare bones" desktop system in case I take |
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> them out somewhere. |
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> I've loaded fluxbox, dillo, spruce, mplayer, and some assorted games |
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> (pysol, xbomb, xtris, etc...) Surprisingly this system responds |
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> better then my Win2k server at work. |
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> I have a dual xeon server that I did all the building on, then I just |
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> boot the laptop to the minimal cd and partition drives and use the tar |
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> file from my server in place of the stage3. Then just load grub, |
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> reboot, and you just saved yourself days of compiling. |
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> I used -O2 for compiling, and since I use my server to do all the |
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> building from, I delete /usr/portage before I load it on the laptops. |
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> this puts me around ~850M for a complete system (My laptops only have |
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> a 2G/3G hard drives with 96M/128M ram). |
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> Chris Frederick |
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