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Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2009 17:46:06 schrieb Grant Edwards: |
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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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Don't know if this is possible with portage, I switched to paludis a long time |
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ago. However, with paludis, one can setup several environments, each with a |
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different set of USE flags, CFLAGS, etc., where each will be installed into a |
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different root directory. Inside this root directory, everything looks like a |
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normal install. |
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So you could mount the complete filesystem tree of the slow machine on a |
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faster one (via NFS), compile everything on the fast machine and let it |
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install to /root_of_slow_box. |
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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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Hehe, I once did a "Linux from Scratch" install on my Amiga. Compiling GCC |
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took ages to complete, didn't even dare to think about something like OOo. |
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I always use FVWM on low power machines. It's quite fast and, with the crystal |
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theme, looks very nice. |
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HTH... |
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Dirk |
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