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Re: [opensuse-factory] GM release
- From: Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:01:07 -0700
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612071149330.25090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Rajko M wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 December 2006 07:48, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > The Tuesday 2006-12-05 at 19:20 -0600, Rajko M wrote:
> > > I thought that more people with underpowered machines are present on
> > > openSUSE, but that is obviously not the case :-)
> >
> > Why do you say that? I'm interested, but I'm no developper, I don't think
> > I can contribute. What kind of contribution is needed?
>
> To make MiniSUSE running, it is necessary to understand Installation, as it is
> proven that even the 10.1 can run in text mode or some GUI with modest
> requests to hardware. I tested it with 300 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM, and I'm
> satisfied. It is not flying, but for sure not crawling like under KDE.
> The same machine had FreeBSD, and PC BSD with KDE, and it was slow during KDE
> startup, but usable afterwards, so there is room for optimization.
I was able to install 10.2 on a 60MHz Machine with 128 MB RAM. I was not
able to get it to install with 96 MB RAM. KDE is not really usable. But
you can run X. It was OK woth 4-5 Xterm's. SeaMonkey was a bit SLOW. It
would get slugish. There are better OS/Distro for this class of machine.
It did take 10-14 hours to install. I did have to create a 750 MB swap
partition to install and I had to do it in Text mode. But it worked. It
was not doing well or failed on a 32 MHz machine so I stopped/gave up the
install. I do not remember right now too much playing with various
configurations. I no longer am using 10.2 on my 60 MHz machine. I had to
over-write it to do real work for a client. But I thought I should report
my findings. I really like 10.2.
Thanks so much for a great Release. The new paterns really assist with
lower class machines.
New HW is comodity and made to break. I have had 8 machines since 2001/2
DIE but my older machines just keep on going. I had 2 2.0 GHz machines
dies 1-2 years after purchase. Just after waranty expires.. Other were
fast but died. I sware newer machines are made do die right safter
warenty. expires.
Good Luck,
--
Boyd Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>
ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047
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> On Wednesday 06 December 2006 07:48, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > The Tuesday 2006-12-05 at 19:20 -0600, Rajko M wrote:
> > > I thought that more people with underpowered machines are present on
> > > openSUSE, but that is obviously not the case :-)
> >
> > Why do you say that? I'm interested, but I'm no developper, I don't think
> > I can contribute. What kind of contribution is needed?
>
> To make MiniSUSE running, it is necessary to understand Installation, as it is
> proven that even the 10.1 can run in text mode or some GUI with modest
> requests to hardware. I tested it with 300 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM, and I'm
> satisfied. It is not flying, but for sure not crawling like under KDE.
> The same machine had FreeBSD, and PC BSD with KDE, and it was slow during KDE
> startup, but usable afterwards, so there is room for optimization.
I was able to install 10.2 on a 60MHz Machine with 128 MB RAM. I was not
able to get it to install with 96 MB RAM. KDE is not really usable. But
you can run X. It was OK woth 4-5 Xterm's. SeaMonkey was a bit SLOW. It
would get slugish. There are better OS/Distro for this class of machine.
It did take 10-14 hours to install. I did have to create a 750 MB swap
partition to install and I had to do it in Text mode. But it worked. It
was not doing well or failed on a 32 MHz machine so I stopped/gave up the
install. I do not remember right now too much playing with various
configurations. I no longer am using 10.2 on my 60 MHz machine. I had to
over-write it to do real work for a client. But I thought I should report
my findings. I really like 10.2.
Thanks so much for a great Release. The new paterns really assist with
lower class machines.
New HW is comodity and made to break. I have had 8 machines since 2001/2
DIE but my older machines just keep on going. I had 2 2.0 GHz machines
dies 1-2 years after purchase. Just after waranty expires.. Other were
fast but died. I sware newer machines are made do die right safter
warenty. expires.
Good Luck,
--
Boyd Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>
ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047
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