Allen wrote:
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:41:06 +0100 Ken Hough
wrote: Allen wrote:
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:37:34 -0400 Mike McMullin
wrote: <snip>
They don't need to know. Let them set near pysychotic requirements, and let people realise even the newest version of SUSE can still run on older hardware.
Yes it can, but it's not much fun waiting for KDE/Open Office on a 500MHz/126MB box.. Modern X stuff needs some horsepower and memory to be realistically workable.
Why did you reply off list?
Sorry. My mistake.
And I run Linux and BSD on most my boxes here. Two of them are this:
Celeron 433 MHz 192 RAM, 8 MBs Video.
P3 733 MHz 384 RAM, 16 MB Video.
KDE works fine on them. I don't use Open Office or any other office suit. I use Gedit and Vim for just about everything.
I can use Firefox, with around 30 tabs open, XMMS running, a file manager like Konq open, and no problems.
Ken Hough
-Allen
I have two Athlon boxes (1600XP and 2200XP, each with 512 MB RAM), a 500MHz K6II with 512MB RAM, a 700 MHz PIII with 512MB RAM, a 700MHz Thinkpad with 384MB RAM and I used to run a 300MB Toshiba laptop with 256MB RAM. These PCs all run/ran SuSE.
IMHO, the 700MHz PIII is on the linit of acceptable practical speed. For image processing, the Athlons are the only ones that I would spend time with. I cannot comment on BSD as I've not used it. Ken Hough -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com