M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Thomas Schulte
wrote: At the last IRC meeting (on Saturday, October 31) we talked about the minimum hardware requirements for openSUSE:
http://www.novell.com/en-us/products/opensuse/sysreqs.html
We agreed that the current reqs are not that appropriate anymore. Refilwe Seete had the idea of splitting the definitions into different parts like "GUI-based" and "CLI-based" requirements. That's basically a very good idea but we have to keep in mind that GUI shouldn't be generalized because IceWM or LXDE are not as consumptive as KDE4 or GNOME. And, of course, we shouldn't blow up the definition too much because of the needed clarity.
I've successfully installed both Gnome and KDE desktops from the 11.2 RC1 DVD on a 512 MB laptop. The LiveCDs don't really work - they thrash around on the CD drive. The resulting system from a DVD comes up fine, and as long as you only have one Firefox tab up, or a small OpenOffice doc, it is usable. I have not tested the XFCE desktop - the non-starting window manager issue is a show-stopper for my use cases, and XFCE is off my list of potential desktops for the future.
I have now installed on my i586 (AMD K6 CPU) with 256 Mb using the NET install mini-CD. That is the only form that runs on i586 - the others need at least i686. This installation originally failed, but worked when I selected "Text Mode" at boot time. This is selected with the F3 key. I had filed a Bug report on the failure, but after finding a work around, it has been changed to an enhancement for 11.3 so that text mode will be selected automatically if the memory is less than 512 MB. This machine is only used with a CLI, thus the heaviness of the GUI is irrelevant. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org