[opensuse-kde] need a crispy linucs for da missus, don't want to install windoze in her laptop
I have about 2 weeks before my bill gates white trooper / son comes back home. Before he comes back I want to have a killer suse laptop for the wife, da missus and I just decided that she does not need a desktop, a laptop with a choice between land line and wifi would be perfectly acceptable! the problem is that the laptop is an aged hp job, the model is an hp pavilion, ze1000 series, with an 80gb hard drive, 512mb ram and an amd xp-1500+ cpu. presently, the laptop is a dual boot setup, 32 bit suse 10.3 is the default, windoze xp is the other choice in the grub menu. all that will be wiped out for the *one* os to be freshly installed. Currently, the standard 10.3 suse feels *a lot more sluggish* on the laptop than the xp and no, it is not beagle, the dreaded dog was never allowed in the system at install! so, i am asking for help in installing a fast suse system. should I go to 11.0? should i try something like knoppyx? if i still do suse, what can i keep out of the installation in order to gain speed? should i abandon kde and try somethinglike xfce? expected useage would be email, web browsing, book writing(oo), vlc / mplayer / dvd playing multimedia, perhaps some pdf file creation. any ideas will be welcome! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 21 August 2008, kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
I have about 2 weeks before my bill gates white trooper / son comes back home. Before he comes back I want to have a killer suse laptop for the wife, da missus and I just decided that she does not need a desktop, a laptop with a choice between land line and wifi would be perfectly acceptable! the problem is that the laptop is an aged hp job, the model is an hp pavilion, ze1000 series, with an 80gb hard drive, 512mb ram and an amd xp-1500+ cpu. presently, the laptop is a dual boot setup, 32 bit suse 10.3 is the default, windoze xp is the other choice in the grub menu. all that will be wiped out for the *one* os to be freshly installed. Currently, the standard 10.3 suse feels *a lot more sluggish* on the laptop than the xp and no, it is not beagle, the dreaded dog was never allowed in the system at install! so, i am asking for help in installing a fast suse system. should I go to 11.0? should i try something like knoppyx? if i still do suse, what can i keep out of the installation in order to gain speed? should i abandon kde and try somethinglike xfce? expected useage would be email, web browsing, book writing(oo), vlc / mplayer / dvd playing multimedia, perhaps some pdf file creation. any ideas will be welcome! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Hello Kanenas, I think openSUSE 11.0 combined with KDE 3.5.9 will do, it is much faster. Is the 512MB ram the max that the HP Pavilion can have. A total of 1 GB should be plenty for the intended use -- Regards, Frans Leerink --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 23:16 -1000, kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
I have about 2 weeks before my bill gates white trooper / son comes back home. Before he comes back I want to have a killer suse laptop for the wife, da missus and I just decided that she does not need a desktop, a laptop with a choice between land line and wifi would be perfectly acceptable! the problem is that the laptop is an aged hp job, the model is an hp pavilion, ze1000 series, with an 80gb hard drive, 512mb ram and an amd xp-1500+ cpu. presently, the laptop is a dual boot setup, 32 bit suse 10.3 is the default, windoze xp is the other choice in the grub menu. all that will be wiped out for the *one* os to be freshly installed. Currently, the standard 10.3 suse feels *a lot more sluggish* on the laptop than the xp and no, it is not beagle, the dreaded dog was never allowed in the system at install! so, i am asking for help in installing a fast suse system. should I go to 11.0? should i try something like knoppyx? if i still do suse, what can i keep out of the installation in order to gain speed? should i abandon kde and try somethinglike xfce? expected useage would be email, web browsing, book writing(oo), vlc / mplayer / dvd playing multimedia, perhaps some pdf file creation. any ideas will be welcome! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
I just put openSuse 11 with KDE3 on my laptop which is an older Toshiba Satelite (Celeron 1100 with 512 MB ram and 100GB hard drive). It seems faster than 10.x was but I don't have hard numbers to back that up. I could use a lighter weight desktop and get some more speed, but I like KDE and I would rather use it even if it is some slower. This also is a dual boot with Windows XP and some things in XP SEEM faster. I get a desktop faster but as you know many things continue to load after the desktop appears, so it really isn't usable much faster and if I open a lot of Windows it appears to slow down much more than openSuse does. I rarely boot into Windows but keep it for occasional customer support. All my own activities are carried out in Linux. I have used all the versions since 9.0 on this machine.. it has never been fast and never will.. it is a limited machine. Your mileage may vary. Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:16:32 -1000 kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
perfectly acceptable! the problem is that the laptop is an aged hp job, the model is an hp pavilion, ze1000 series, with an 80gb hard drive, 512mb ram and an amd xp-1500+ cpu. presently, the laptop is a dual boot setup, 32 bit suse 10.3 is the default, windoze xp is the other choice in the grub menu. all that will be wiped out for the *one* os to be freshly installed. Currently, the standard 10.3 suse feels *a lot more sluggish* on the laptop than the xp and no, it is not beagle, the dreaded dog was never allowed in the system at install! so, i am asking for help in installing a fast suse system.
I would upgrade memory, too. With the data from the "service tag" (S/N, P/N, Model) you can check at hp.com the possibilities. Usually this model allows up to 2 GB RAM distributed on two memory slots. At hp.com you could find an advice to change memory modules by yourself, too. Another important thing is the video interface and its driver. If you have installed frame buffer driver (which usually is the default of a Suse installation) and your laptop's video interface allows graphics acceleration you could check whether there is a OpenGL-driver and install it. A disadvantage of those drivers is that they usually consume more power. Personally I would stay at opensuse 10.2 instead of 10.3 but I have no experience with 11.0. I think 10.2 is one of the most stable Suse-versions of the last years. 10.3 has some advantages concerning simple installation of WLAN and graphics adapter but it seems to slow down the system. A disadvantage of 10.2 is that update support will end this year. -- Gruß, Tobias. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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