Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1556 mails)

[Martin Jungowski <martin@xxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,

our company has a few Lenovo S10e Netbooks out there, all equipped with
a 4GB SSD and no harddrive. They're in for a pretty rough handling and
we've tried harddrives - they died after a few weeks, sometimes even a
few days in the field.

Currently, they're running openSUSE 11.1 but are in dire need of an
update - the 11.1 was more of a workaround. Sometimes only the root
account works, sometimes they grind to a screeching halt, etc. Suffice
it to say that none of our users is really happy with them right now, so
I'm looking to upgrade them to 11.2.

What we need:
- Gnome environment
- XDM to login (GDM is not customizable enough)
- QT3 libs
- Firefox 3.5, Thunderbird 2.0
- OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, Adobe Reader 9.x
- A 256MB swap partition

What we don't need:
- Games
- QT4
- Other desktop environments or window managers

After remove tons of packages, documentation, unneccessary locale data,
etc. I'm down to roughly 2.8GB now:

martin/nbrieke$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             3.6G  2.8G  755M  80% /
udev                  246M  316K  245M   1% /dev

However, that still feels like too much for my taste. I've gone through
YaST2 Software Management several times, looking for packages to remove
but have to say that I've reached the point where I simply don't know
what else to do.

Simply put: has anyone managed to go even further than that? Or have I
reached the ceiling?

Martin

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