On Saturday 31 March 2007 21:58, Larry Stotler wrote:
On 3/31/07, Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net> wrote:
Hmm, you can get something similar with SUSE 9.3 on 250 MHz / 128 MB and some old, slow hard disk if you install full blown KDE.
Nope - I installed v10.1 on a PPro 200Mhz with 128MB EDO RAM and a slow 4GB IDE and I had a desktop in about 5 minutes. Now, A 486SX-25 with 32MB RAM would be bad. Actually, I beta tested v10.0 on a PowerMac 7500/100 with the original 601 chip at 100Mhz, no L2, and 80MB RAM with the onboard 2MB VRAM. That was still usable to an extent. The 40MB/s SCSI drive helped out so say the least.
It was long ago as 9.3 was brand new, so I really can't recall times, but it was something like 20-30 minutes to see the desktop. That board had obviously more problems, but at the end it was working. It could be disabled cache, really slow hard drive, very little RAM on graphic adapter etc. Later I did the same on 350 MHz and 128 MB, and it was slow, but nothing comparable to one mentioned. I guess it was more like in your example. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org