1. There was talk about dropping some support for legacy hardware. I figure that this probably includes a lot of "Old World" macs or
-----Original Message-----
From: LarryStotler
To: olh@suse.de
Sent: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:49:30 -0400
Subject: Re: [suse-ppc] openSuSE v10.2 goals?
There was some talk of dropping support for legacy hardware back when
we were working on v10.0. I can't remember what was said, but I don't
think that it went anywhere. That's why I said there was
talk.....However, I can't see the continued support of machines that
won't be physically capable of even runing the installer. The 55/6500
maxes out at 128MB RAM. the 54/6400 maxes at 136MB. Now, the main line
desktops and towers do support between 768MB(G3 beige),
1GB(73/75/76/85/9509) and 1.5GB(86/9600).
I never do an upgrade to begin with. I just do a fresh install on
another drive and then work the kinks out. I've been using SuSE since
v5.3 and I've only managed to do like 2 succssful updates. Probably
something I was doing wrong, but I just decided to start from scrath
from then on. Heck, to get mplayer to compile properly on my 2.4Ghz
celeron, I had to go from v10.0(seg faulted, gccv4.02) to v9.3(compiled
properly). Of course, on that machine, it will never do anything but
re-encode movies and play them, so no big deal, andmplayer isn't
exactly the easier program to set up.
Wow - a Gig needed to do an upgrade. My first install of SuSE was on a
P75 w/ 32MB RAM and ran X. Talk about changes. I don't even have a GB
in any of my machines. Most only have 256MB and some even less. And
considering that I worl on a lot of computers, I don't see that many
with more than 512 either. I hope that work is being done to improve
that. Not being a programmer, I only have testing and bug reports to
offer.....
-----Original Message-----
From: Olaf Hering
machines.
Who said that? It will likely get harder to install as time passes and YaST+inst-sys gets fatter. Someone has to walk through the code and fix the memleaks, error paths and reduce overall memory consumption. Its a fulltime job. This will not work due to incompatible changes to the inst-sys. An upgrade will take much longer than a fresh install because almost every package calls ldconfig in the postinstall. This reads large parts of the installed system into memory, it really trashes your disk if you have less then a gig of memory. Testing and doing good bugreports early will certainly help to detect breakage early. ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com