Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (600 mails)

[Larry Stotler <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM, phanisvara das <phani00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> what's driving up the hardware requirement: operating system or desktop
> environment?

Good question.  Supposedly, KDE has gotten faster and uses less
resources than ever.  At least since 3.x came out, each version is
supposed to be leaner from my understanding.  I installed SuSE 7.3 on
my Wallstreet and it flew, and all the hardware worked properly out of
the box.  KDE2 was very responsive, and browsing was acceptable.
11.0/KDE3 was painful.

> i was trying to run KDE 4.3 on a slow machine (amd single core, 1,700, 1 GB)
> and found it way too slow. when i switched over to fluxbox things got much
> better.

I ran 11.0/Beta3 on a PowerMac 6500/225 with 128MB RAM(Max) and even
using fluxbox or IceWM it wasn't usable.  The G3/266 should be twice
as fast and the 512MB should have been better.  Also, I've ran
11.0/KDE3 on my 1Ghz P3 laptop with 512MB and it was very usable.

> that was on openSUSE 11.1 though; haven't tried it on factory yet.

Nor have I.  Haven't played with KDE4 much to see if it's getting to
the point that I can use it.  Planning to tho.

512MB should be fine for most users IMO.  If you can run XP with a
1Ghz P3 and 512MB well, then openSUSE should be usable as well.
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