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