On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Peter Czanik wrote:

But I guess, I was the most active on all fronts to ask for factory PPC, as I'm a SuSE mirror admin, have a local build service to build some interesting packages from the BS on PPC and beta testing S.u.S.E. from about 5.x :-)

True. I haven't done much with factory. Too busy. I have d/l several of the alpha and betas and never even got a chance to install them..... :-( No time. Had to go backpacking with my son over the weekend and woke up in a tent in 28 degree weather......and then had to hike back. Not that it wasn't fun, but I'm still trying to recover from all that....... When I get moved here soon into a bigger place, I will have the ability to get my Macs up and running and see how things are. I did pull my powerbook Wallstreet out of a box and want to try to get it running. I thought I had a line on a G4 upgrade for it, but now the guy won't get back to me. Oh well.

I don't know, but KDE 4.1 works great on my Pegasos (1Ghz G4 with 512MB of RAM and ATI Radeon 9250). The next is testing factory on my EFIKA, but that will be XFCE.

I had Xfce running on a My PowerMac 6500 with 11.0/Beta3. Problem with that machine is it's 128MB RAM ceiling. Needless to say it was SLOW. That's why I got a copy of 7.3. I want to see how well it does with an older distro. I may try to get a G3 for it at some point(it has a 603ev/275 in it now). I also picked up a Powerbook 3400c that should be here by the end of the week. It's a 603e/180 with 16MB RAM. Now to find a 128MB upgrade for it and see if I can get Linux on it. No cpu upgrades for it tho..... Later -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Peter Czanik wrote:

Well, EFIKA has also 128MB (not upgradeable). If you choose the applications carefully, it runs at an acceptable speed. I mean Opera instead of Firefox, abiword / gnumeric instead of OpenOffice, etc. Still not fast, but works without much waiting.

So we are in the same boat. I really wish there was a version of Damn Small Linux for Mac. I've looked into trying to make something for the really lowend systems, but besides the fact that it looks complicated, it takes time. I like openSUSE and really like YaST, but it's not always the best choice for older hardware. I have an old Compaq Laptop that my kids were using that has a P/90 and only 8MB ram with Win95. I recently found a RAM upgrade for it and it now has 40MB, so I may put DamnSmall on it and use it as a router. The screen is kinda bad, so at least I can get some use out of it. Later -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org