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
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