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Originally Posted by latepaul
Yep. Although from what I've been reading it seems that compiling with no-sse2 means QT5 may not perform as well.
Also it seems that it's possible for Linux distros to provide both an SSE and non-SSE version of the relevant library. See here for a good (technical) summary of the issue, and here for a related bug report.
It looks like Ubuntu - and therefore Xubuntu - is using this mechanism. HOWEVER Calibre supplies its own QT5 libraries so you'd probably need to build Calibre yourself. Sigil I think would use the system libraries if possible.
All of which is fascinating to some like me, but probably a bit of a tangent on a thread where we're discussing what's easy.
Oh and Greg, since you're already running Linux. You can check your CPU capability easily with:
Look for sse2 in the output. HTH. |
Pentium 4 with 2gigs of ram is serious underpowered. It's going to be swapping to disk quite a lot and slowing down because of this. And given that it's a Pentium 4 based system, memory is going to be hard to get and/or expensive. And that's even if the system can go past 4gigs. It cannot run 64-bit anyway. So an upgrade of the system is a rather good idea to make sure everything is new enough that it runs well and run all the software wanted to be run. My way of looking at it is that if it cannot run Windows 8.1, it's obsolete and should be replaced.