Bruce Marshall wrote:
I've been using SuSE as long as you have but I always do a fresh install and haven't noticed any major change in system speed.
Like you, I never upgrade, although I keep the /home directory. My very first SUSE install was a 4.4.1, bought in Hugendubel on Marienplatz in Muenchen, then installed on an already dated 486DX2, although it might have been a 200MHz Pentium Pro. Wow, almost 10 years ago. I must be getting old ... The only major changes in speed I've noticed was 1) the change from YaST1 to YaST2 and 2) the recent introduction of Zen/Redcarpet etc. Most of my hardware is below 1GHz clock and 2) in particular is quite CPU-intensive. dupont:/home/per/ibwd # time rug remove samba-doc Waking up ZMD...Done Resolving Dependencies... The following packages will be removed: samba-doc 3.0.22-16 (system) Transaction... 100% Transaction Finished real 14m37.173s user 0m30.462s sys 0m1.152s /Per Jessen, Zürich