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.
