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
