Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

["Larry Stotler" <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I thought the minimum requirement for installing SUSE was 256MB and
> pretty much has been for a long, long while. The requirement for
> running Office apps on a full KDE desktop is 512MB, but there are ways
> around that (xfce, gnumeric, abiword) which work just as well.

The only "Official" requirement I know of is 256MB for installation.
However, I regularly run file servers with 128MB on text, so it is a
little annoying having to meet that(which can be gotten around if you
already have a swap partition, you just have to activate it)

> A typical Netbook system may have 512MB of RAM, but it also has
> limited provision for swap (or "demand paging area" if you want to
> call it that) too, if it only has 4GB of total storage. The default
> install would take ~1.5GB of that as swap. ~1.5GB to install. What's
> left? One gigabyte for the user. This is not friendly, and also on the
> current crop of cost effective ML-NAND SSDs, a terrible idea too.

I don't have any netbooks, but I do have systems that can't go to
512MB due to design limits(Thinkpad X21 maxes at 384MB) or hardware
issues(Thinkpad A22p has bad RAM slot and only uses 256MB chips).

The install requirement came about in 10.1 or 10.2(I think).  Before
that, I know I installed 10.0 Beta on a PowerMac with 80MB and it ran
fairly well.  Now, you need at least 256MB to run a desktop.  Back in
the days of 5.3, I had a P/100 and 32MB RAM.  I could install that now
and still be pretty productive on many things.  You don't need a lot
to type or email with a basic web client, especially if you aren't
using that bloated openoffice or any of the "pretty" gui emails
programs.  I know several people who still use 68k Macs on a daily
basis.
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