On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123104511608102&w=2 > > I think that (old) mask quoted in that person's message is because > OpenOffice before 2.0.4 did not support 64-bit compiling at all.
openoffice 3 isn't better.. yeah, it compiles in 64bit - sometimes.
