On Monday 28 January 2008 21:09, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
Montag, 28. Januar 2008 James Tremblay:
ON a positive note , all of us who use linux are helping simply by not forcing new computers to have to made.
This notion keeps popping up among linux people. To actually verify it I suggest you install opensuse 10.3 on a box that's 4 years old. You will not be pleased.
Gee, that's odd. I've got it installed on an old dual AMD machine that I bought about 4 years ago, and it runs fine. It runs a lot better than the XP that was on it. I also installed it on an old AMD 1000 with less than a gig of ram. Runs circles around XP.
Not that it's a bad thing that linux distributions keep aiming at the moving target "hardware".
It's a good thing, but backwards compatibility is one of the things I like best about linux. When all else fails, I can always get it running when the winXX stuff dies. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 9:27pm up 166 days 1:59, 5 users, load average: 1.01, 1.12, 1.21 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org