On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Carlos E. R.
And I have been told today that a Bugzilla I reported will not be solved because they consider my machine (P-IV, circa 2001) too old. So, Linux no longer supports old hardware :-(
Didn't know that. Knew they don't want to support G3's and P3's, which makes no sense because they are good machines if you remove all the crap. And crap removal is the problem. When you have unnecessary dependcies, you can't remove what you need to. I ran SuSE 5.3 on a 32MB RAM system. By 7.3 I had 192 IIRC. I have 8.1 install on a Thinkpad with a Pentium 233 and 96MB and it runs great. Now, you have to have 256 to just install it and 512 to use it reasonably on a stock install. I don't expect low end systems to last forever, but when you remove what you don't need, you can do a lot with a low ram system. I have a server with 128MB, dual P3/500, but it's not running a GUI, so it can get away with less RAM. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org