On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen@gmail.com> wrote:
You can't expect the latest software to keep on running on older machines forever. Maybe keeping 3.5 on those machines is the best idea?
I do get tired of hearing this. The KDE team has stated that KDE4 uses less resources and less RAM than KDE3. How is that an indication that I need to replace my machines.
I don't think that Windows Vista or Mac OS X will run "great" on either of those machines...
Well, I wouldn't try Vista and it would be too much work to run OS X on it. However, I have a copy of OS X 10.4 Tiger on a G3/400 desktop and it runs fine. I wouldn't try 10.5 Leapord, but Tiger is decent. So, what, we will always keep needing more hardware reqs? Sorry, that's BS. I can load Win98SE on my Thinkpad 380XD P2/233/96MB(MAX) and use Firefox 2.0 and browse the web just fine(other than flash/videos - Text is great) and type documents just fine with Wordpad. What takes the resources is making the desktop "pretty" and having it "respond" to what you are doing. Personally, I want the program to run when I click it. I don't need windows to "grow" and "shrink" when I minimize/maximize. I want it to go away or come back. It's like hiding the taskbar. I have the buttons on both sides and when I click them, it dissappears. No animation. Other than the window redrawing to fill in the new space, it's fast. Doesn't matter if I'm on my Celeron E1200 overclocked to 3.2 Ghz or my Dual P3/Xeon 500Mhz Desktop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org