-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To start off I would like to thank SUSE/Novell for 10.1. I think the following information may be of interest. I have installed 10.1 over 10 times. I would like to report the results and share my opinion. 10.1 runs well on older hardware once installed and zmd is turned off and beagle is only run at time one is not on system. It is actually faster than 10.0. System details. 666 P III with 128 MB RAM (Old but very usable even with Open Office *) I have two of these machines that I was running UnixWare 7.1.4 with reliant HA. So the systems are pretty much identical. For the test I downloaded all inst-source and non-oss-inst-source and packman to a SUSE 10.0 machine and set up a private network with public Class C IP addresses see diagram below. Do only one system at a time so not to interfear with other system. |---------------| |-----------------------| | | | Upgrade | | SUSE | |-------| | | 10.0 | | | | | | | |-----------------------| | | | | | |----|-----| | |--| HUB | | | |-|--|-----| | | | | | | | | |-----------------------| | | | | | New Install | | | | |-------| | | | | | | |-------|-------| | |-----------------------| | | | | | | Other Computers/removed \ Connect/NoConnect \ Internet | - ----------------| 1. Upgrade of SUSE 10.0 to 10.1 48-56 hours. Finished while I finally went to sleep. 2. Fresh instalation of 10.1 4.5 hours to get all the same selections as in update, then 12.5 hours to complete installation. Comparisom with ZMD and without in KDE. 1, 10.0 1-3 minute to bring up installation source window. 2, 10.1 beta 3-4 1-3 minute to bring up installation source window. 3, 10.1 1.5-2.0 hours to bring up installation source window No ZMD. 4, 10.1 4.5-6.5 hours to bring up installation source window with ZMD. 5. 10.1 smart 3-10 minute (smart --shell) no ZMD 6. 10.1 smart 1.75-2 hours (smart --shell) with ZMD 7. 10.1 using smart to do uprade or update cache or packages 5+ minutes, I am able to work on other system via ssh, other windows limited responsiveness while smart is working. 8. 10.1 with ZMD Using YaST forget every thing leave system. Mouse will move at times, but not all the time nothing is possible. 9. 10.1 no ZMD 5-15 minutes to exit. 10. 10.1 smart upgrade 35 minutes 11. 10.1 after smart upgrade of 9jun06 patches 3.5 hours to exit. 12. 10.1 with ZMD 6.5-8.5 hours to save source window 13. 10.1 with ZMD patch installation 8+ hours 14. 10.1 after smart upgrade with ZMD running able to use other ssh window, but with hesitations. * zmd has been shutdown (/etc/init.d/novell-zmd stop) My 2 year old laptop 2.0GHz Celeron with 512 MB Memory 1. 10.0 update to 10.1 9 hours to update from the same souce above. 2. 10.1 with ZMD 1.5-2.5 hours to bringup installation source window. 3. 10.1 with ZMD 2.5-5.5 hours to save installation source. After Update 9 Jun 06 1. 10.1 with ZMD 15 minutes to brinupg installation source window. 2. 10.1 with ZMD 1.5-3.5 hours to save installation source window**. **Often error about ZMD and not able to sync sources. So I do see improvment. Thanks, - -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFEieUGVtBjDid73eYRAiB+AJ0bTuhvZqx75haN8IAMYw0KZSncuQCfbs+M 3JwkwEZi0039WU7Qsbce6m4= =03kD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory-help@opensuse.org