On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 08:45, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > What I'd like to add, is: > of course, do not run KDE or Gnome while compiling on a P233. > Even better, do not start X at all. > Run Scribus in a window manager, I use Blackbox.
Agreed. For older hardware, an excellent minimalist window manager which loads very quickly. Quite the opposite to KDE/Gnome, but I use this for testing Scribus and when I just need to write a lot without the eye candy distraction. > And close other programs, notably Mozilla. > But most of all, I would not install SuSE 8.1 on a P233, but stick to > 7.3 at most. > Under these conditions, the speed should be at an acceptable level. And compile Qt yourself with CXXFLAGS set properly for a 233 in qmake.conf - on the todo list for the docs - optimizing your system libraries for Scribus. HTH, Peter
