Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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). Fvwm is lightweight. Make a point of compiling the kernel without anything you don't need; if you might need something then make it a module. Don't run daemon's you don't really need. For example, log into the command line and use startx or xinit rather than having the thing boot into an X11 login. Use a large amount of swap compared to ram (with your drive maybe 2G) and avoid tmpfs for working storage. If all you're using the thing for is surfing or basic development then it should work fine. The old standard for using X11 was a minimum 12MB of core and 40MB disk. For a long time that was difficult, then IDE came along and big disks got cheaper :-) -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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. He has plenty of disk. It may use a lot of virtual memory, but with sufficient swap it will [eventually] get done. -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
OK folks, all have a seat please. I ran a full blown KDE on a 133Mhz machine with 256Mbs of ram. A friend if mine played Solitaire on it and it worked well. It even had sound on it. I started running fvwm on a 486 w/ 16MB of core and a pair of 20MB disk drives (one RLL one MFM). Face it: we've all become addicted to amounts of RAM that didn't even exist on the planet 25 years ago, let alone disk :-) -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
Steven Lembark wrote: OK folks, all have a seat please. I ran a full blown KDE on a 133Mhz machine with 256Mbs of ram. A friend if mine played Solitaire on it and it worked well. It even had sound on it. I started running fvwm on a 486 w/ 16MB of core and a pair of 20MB disk drives (one RLL one MFM). Face it: we've all become addicted to amounts of RAM that didn't even exist on the planet 25 years ago, let alone disk :-) But when was this? Mine was about a year ago or so. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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). -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I just remembered at something about a TOAD! visi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com 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). My biggest suggestion for a slow machine is: distcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
2009/1/20 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com 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). My biggest suggestion for a slow machine is: distcc For something that slow even distcc wont do that much good, there are a number or packages that dont like distcc, and things like configure scripts will still run on the slow pc. A better option would be to use a faster pc to create binary packages and then point the slower pc to the binary repo, that way to doesnt even have to try and compile anything (which imo is crazy, im surprised OO hasnt crashed and run out of memory during its compile!). Do some digging, theres guides on the gentoo forums and the wiki i think for setting up binpkg hosts. - Nick
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: 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. OOo from source uses the Go-Oo.org patch set, the binary does not (AFAIK) but, yes, watching compile die after an hour (or 20) is no fun :P
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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-kernelm=123104511608102w=2
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Nick Cunningham n...@monkeydust.net wrote: 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 I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with 256mb may be futile :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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-kernelm=123104511608102w=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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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-kernelm=123104511608102w=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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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-kernelm=123104511608102w=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
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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). I usually just pull the drive and put it in a faster computer. Build the OS with conservative CFLAGs and swap the drive back when done. I've rarely had issues with this. kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:32:02 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with 256mb may be futile :) Not if he's got plenty of swap, it'll just run even slower. Expect a new Debian release before OOo finishes building :) -- Neil Bothwick Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
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Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2009 19:42:47 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Not if he's got plenty of swap, it'll just run even slower. Expect a new Debian release before OOo finishes building :) LOL, can't imagine that it compiles _that_ slow ;-) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
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). I used to have several older puters here and what I always did was put the hard drive in my main machine, chroot in and do my installs. It has worked for me so far. I have also done my upgrades that way too. Note, this may not work if you are using a 64 bit and putting the drive in a 32 bit system. That part I have never done. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: 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. It's funny, I have read a lot of people complain that the binary is the same way but compiling from source works. Interesting. The reason I was told I should compile my own is because it was more stable than the binary. How do you figure that OOo from source is not supported? Almost everything in Gentoo is from source. That's what Gentoo is, Linux From Scratch with a neat package manager. Very neat I might add. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
s3b4sm4gr1 wrote: 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 http://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 OK folks, all have a seat please. I ran a full blown KDE on a 133Mhz machine with 256Mbs of ram. A friend if mine played Solitaire on it and it worked well. It even had sound on it. Yea, it took a while to boot but I told him this is Linux, just leave it running 24/7. Worked until the house burned down. Close your mouths, you are catching flies. LOL Dale :-) :-)
