2009/1/20 Alejandro <elcorreode...@gmail.com> > > > 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 >
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
