On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 23:16 -1000, kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
I have about 2 weeks before my bill gates white trooper / son comes back home. Before he comes back I want to have a killer suse laptop for the wife, da missus and I just decided that she does not need a desktop, a laptop with a choice between land line and wifi would be perfectly acceptable! the problem is that the laptop is an aged hp job, the model is an hp pavilion, ze1000 series, with an 80gb hard drive, 512mb ram and an amd xp-1500+ cpu. presently, the laptop is a dual boot setup, 32 bit suse 10.3 is the default, windoze xp is the other choice in the grub menu. all that will be wiped out for the *one* os to be freshly installed. Currently, the standard 10.3 suse feels *a lot more sluggish* on the laptop than the xp and no, it is not beagle, the dreaded dog was never allowed in the system at install! so, i am asking for help in installing a fast suse system. should I go to 11.0? should i try something like knoppyx? if i still do suse, what can i keep out of the installation in order to gain speed? should i abandon kde and try somethinglike xfce? expected useage would be email, web browsing, book writing(oo), vlc / mplayer / dvd playing multimedia, perhaps some pdf file creation. any ideas will be welcome! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
I just put openSuse 11 with KDE3 on my laptop which is an older Toshiba Satelite (Celeron 1100 with 512 MB ram and 100GB hard drive). It seems faster than 10.x was but I don't have hard numbers to back that up. I could use a lighter weight desktop and get some more speed, but I like KDE and I would rather use it even if it is some slower. This also is a dual boot with Windows XP and some things in XP SEEM faster. I get a desktop faster but as you know many things continue to load after the desktop appears, so it really isn't usable much faster and if I open a lot of Windows it appears to slow down much more than openSuse does. I rarely boot into Windows but keep it for occasional customer support. All my own activities are carried out in Linux. I have used all the versions since 9.0 on this machine.. it has never been fast and never will.. it is a limited machine. Your mileage may vary. Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org