On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Thomas Schulte <thomas@cupracer.de> wrote:
At the last IRC meeting (on Saturday, October 31) we talked about the minimum hardware requirements for openSUSE:
http://www.novell.com/en-us/products/opensuse/sysreqs.html
We agreed that the current reqs are not that appropriate anymore. Refilwe Seete had the idea of splitting the definitions into different parts like "GUI-based" and "CLI-based" requirements. That's basically a very good idea but we have to keep in mind that GUI shouldn't be generalized because IceWM or LXDE are not as consumptive as KDE4 or GNOME. And, of course, we shouldn't blow up the definition too much because of the needed clarity.
I've successfully installed both Gnome and KDE desktops from the 11.2 RC1 DVD on a 512 MB laptop. The LiveCDs don't really work - they thrash around on the CD drive. The resulting system from a DVD comes up fine, and as long as you only have one Firefox tab up, or a small OpenOffice doc, it is usable. I have not tested the XFCE desktop - the non-starting window manager issue is a show-stopper for my use cases, and XFCE is off my list of potential desktops for the future. I am about to give that machine away. The plan is to install GNOME and all the lightweight window managers from the RC2 DVD, then install LXDE from the OBS repos. Then the user can pick a desktop at runtime depending on memory usage. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net "I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God." ~Alan Hovhaness -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org