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
Good to hear that it now works. One important point is that you need an i686 to boot the LiveCD. To add my $0.02 to the discussion on usability. I would not dream of using my laptop with 256 MB and an AMD K6-450/2 (i586) for any real work; however, it is my only machine with a PCMCIA adapter. For that reason, it serves a very important testing niche for certain devices that use the b43 or b43legacy drivers. Upgrading to 11.2 makes it easy to get the latest versions of all the userland tools that are needed to make my testing realistic. That machine already has a 2.6.32-rc5 kernel - kernel upgrades are easy. Obviously, the question of minimum requirements is not simple, but I would like to see some resource that covers both what it takes to run Gnome or KDE, as well as what it takes to get a light-weight GUI or a CLI system onto minimal hardware. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org