Brian K. White said the following on 10/26/2008 07:59 PM:
opensuse is perfectly functional for it's target, which is contemporary machines from laptops to servers. Contemporary as in todays opensuse on todays laptops. I still say it's absolutely retarded to complain that you can't install or run the latest _anything_ that aims to be full featured and generic (such as opensuse or windows for that matter) on 10 or more year old hardware.
If you have hardware that falls outside the mainstream, then of course you need special software for it.
I suppose you could say the Kindle isn't mainstream, though it runs Linux, but many of the netbooks - not 10 years old - are running on SSDs and don't have the 160G to 320G of "mainstream" laptops. Netbooks seem to be coming with 8G, 16G or 40G SSD. I have a friend with a Eee 900 and he installed Mandriva on a 16G model without having to hack the dependency, runs KDE, T'bird, FF. Can that be done with openSUSE-11.0 while respecting the dependency? How much workspace is left over? However, I do note that while MySQL and PostGres are plugins for Postfix, LDAP is compiled in, which is why its a dependency. This despite the documentation that openSUSE supplies mentioning that LDAP can be a plugin. Who made the decision that LDAP would be compiled in and hence a necessary dependency but not MySQL? MySQL is easier to set up than LDAP. BTDT - both ways. -- Me...a skeptic? I trust you can prove that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org