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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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