2009/1/21 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote: > > >> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> > > >> > > >> > 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). > > >> > > > > >> > > 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. > > >> > > > > >> > > 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). > > >> > > > >> > if you don't need any special features, kde+koffice needs less ram > > >> > than xfce+openoffice. > > >> > > > >> > And installing ooo from source is unsupport. The build breaks all > the > > >> > time and > > >> > you don't get anything from it. All it does is starting a second > > >> > faster. It does not need less ram nor does it run faster. > > >> > > >> "installing ooo from source is unsupport" How is this? Maybe you > > >> missundertand i think he run emerge openoffice and not openoffice-bin > > > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123104511608102&w=2 > > > > I think that (old) mask quoted in that person's message is because > > OpenOffice before 2.0.4 did not support 64-bit compiling at all. > > openoffice 3 isn't better.. yeah, it compiles in 64bit - sometimes. > > > You should consider using LXDE as DE, which is designed for low memory and CPU usage...
I'm currently using it on a Celeron Coppermine @ 600Mhz with 256 of PC133 RAM and it goes fine, among with abiword, gnumeric and claws-mail for the office work, consonance for music playing, and pidgin and conspire for Instant Messaging... Regards... -- En el pasado creímos que se nos acababa el petróleo, pero en realidad lo que se nos acababan eran las IDEAS. http://www.lacomunidadpetrolera.com Gentoo/* (Linux #455615) www.gentoove.org 53:04:4e:b5:f9:7e:4a:fb:66:a2:19:12:da:d5:97:f8 8A3A C955 715D D88A 87CD E21F F827 ADD7 F589 B4A4 Sebastian Magrí (sebasmagri) <sebasmagri_at_gmail_dot_com>
