On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> 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
