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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote: |
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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 |
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>> > time and |
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>> > you don't get anything from it. All it does is starting a second faster. |
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>> > It 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 |
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> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123104511608102&w=2 |
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I think that (old) mask quoted in that person's message is because |
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OpenOffice before 2.0.4 did not support 64-bit compiling at all. |