Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

[Nick Cunningham]

2009/1/20 Alejandro <elcorreodeale@×××××.com>

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> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
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>> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old
>> > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron
>> > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM.  I'm using an nVidia PCI
>> > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's
>> > got a decent hard drive (160GB).
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>> > I was wondering if there were any particular tips/tricks for
>> > getting the best performance out of such a machine.  It's to be
>> > used for basic word processing and a few games.  Hopefully the
>> > nVidia 6200 will allow OpenGL to run fast enough for something
>> > like TuxRacer.
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>> > I chose XFCE for the desktop along with both Abiword and
>> > OpenOffice. I probably should have installed OOo from a binary
>> > package, but I decided to build it just to see how long it
>> > 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
>> xfce+openoffice.
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>> And installing ooo from source is unsupport. The build breaks all the time
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>> you don't get anything from it. All it does is starting a second faster.
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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
> missundertand i think he run emerge openoffice and not openoffice-bin
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I believe he means that generally speaking, trying to build OO from source
on a low-end (and especially low RAM) machine is ill-advised and can often
be the cause of build failures as OO is well known to require a lot of RAM
and hdd space while it compiles.

- Nick