I've always advocated reusing computers & I've been continually frustrated by the Linux community as a whole recently because they keep pushing software that takes more resources. Linux was always held up as the poster child for keeping alive older hardware, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside. Then something like the underpowered Raspberry Pi comes out & people fall all over themselves to add support for it. For not much more than the cost of a RPi, I can pick up a cheap Pentium 3 laptop off eBay, which would have same as or more RAM(The RPi originally only came with 26MB, but 512MB is now standard), better expansion & have basically a whole computer that's better supported and much faster(I doubt that the armv6 core in the RPi is faster than a P3/500 at most things). As an example, my Thinkpad A30p has a 1.2Ghz P3, 1GB RAM, Radeon 7000/32MB, 320GB HD, DVD Burner. But, with a well known and well supported old graphics chip, even KDE3/TDE is barely usable & KDE4 is like molasses. Granted, the RPi does have a video chip capable of decoding x264, but a 2D desktop like KDE3/TDE should function well on pretty much any hardware. Supporting ARM is a real pain because there are so many different SoC versions, where x86 is a known and well supported standard. I'm not against supporting the RPi, I just don't understand why it, being underpowered is considered "acceptable" where older PC hardware isn't & people are told they should buy newer. Just wondering. Thanx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org