On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Larry Stotler
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.
For untweaked desktop machines reality does not agree. For instance I just launched a empty oowriter instance. No other OO apps running. It is using 140MB or ram. (80mb private ram, 60mb shared ram) I already posted that firefox and Xorg are using over 200mb each. 512MB is just not enough for the apps in OS 11.1 The same is true of XP. In fact, I have a machine that runs XP exclusively and one that runs suse 11.1 exclusively. Both had a GB of ram until 6 months ago. Both were being slowed down by the limited ram. I have upgraded both to 2GB. Neither use much pagefile space at all now. And more importantly, both are noticeably faster. I'd guess that 1.5GB is now the minimum for a untweaked desktop environment, but 2GB is easier to buy/install. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org