-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 2009-11-03 09:58 schrieb Rasmus Plewe:
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:44:17AM +0100, jdd wrote:
I know of many people that can't afford to buy a computer and are very happy to get for free a 256Mb ram 20Gb HDD PIV (I can spread many of them, from company renewing program)
and openSUSE, even kde, runs on these machines
Of course they do. But users normally[0] don't want to run openSUSE or KDE. They want to run firefox, kmail, acrobat reader and openOffice.
Not Acrobat Reader and OpenOffice - some PDF viewer and some office suite. Those people jdd wrote about are usually willing quite to accept suggestions of less heavyweight alternatives if it is pointed out to them that their first choice requires a machine they would actually have to spend real money for. Firefox and Kmail shouldn't be a problem. Of course people who cannot afford a Real Computer are a niche market. But I think Linux in general, and openSUSE in particular, would be well advised to cater for them.
What I, probably[1] not too well, tried to point out is that the expectations need to be set correctly. If all you've got are 512MB, you can make do with it and work around the limits. But "minimum hardware requirements" imply to me that there is no limit for normal use.
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