Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (80 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rasmus Plewe wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 07:53:19AM +0100, jdd wrote:
> > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky a écrit :
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > I could install on a 256Mb ram computer from the live cd (not going
> > live, of course) and it worked - 2 hours works though :-)
> >
> > not recommanded, but it didn't work with 11.1
>
> I would suggest to split the requirements into "usable installation",

I like that - a hardware suggestion for a usable installation. We might
have to add a little more about _what_ it would be usable for, but
still. 

> requiering at least 1 GB memory, decent CPU, 70GB hard disk (are there
> any smaller hd's still around, anyway?), 

Solid-state disks, yes.  They come in sizes down to megabytes.

> Then there is the "theoretically absolute minimum installation, using
> all the tweaks you can get". That would be the 512/256MB
> installations, probably running out of disk space as soon as the user
> tries to save his .bash_history, and having no graphical resolution to
> speak of (why should they? The system is not usable for someone
> sitting in front of it anyway).

I managed to install 11.1 on a Pentium90 and make it run in only 96Mb -
without a GUI it's perfectly usable, but I think the absolute minimum
requirements should be just:  Pentium CPU, 256Mb RAM (required for
installation), 8Gb harddisk space.


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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