On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Brian K. White <brian@aljex.com> wrote:
I didn't miss anything about netbook functionality. Run a netbook class os on a netbook class device.
Or use an older product that basically offers everything that the netbooks offer, but in a better package.
And if you don't want bigger and better, then why doesn't that apply to software? Run opensuse 10, 9, or 8 if 11 doesn't work on some old hardware.
I do actually. I have SuSE 8.1 on an old Thinkpad that only takes 96MB RAM. Can't run the newer web broswers tho. However, I can install DSL or Puppy and it would be ok. DIstros like that are geared to lower end hardware and I don't expect openSUSE to cater to that end. I'm the one who went through all the PowerMacs and submitted a list of actually usable machines versus those that weren't worth supporting and asking whether we should drop support for older machines, but never really got any answer back.
If it does run ok on something from 2000 as the other person who missed the point that 2002 was just an example, well fine that's just gravy. I don't see the problem.
The problem was saying that you shouldn't try to run a modern system on older hardware. What you need to realize is that older hardware that was upgradable or expandable is perfectly capable of running modern OS's so long as you plan ahead before implementation. A powermac 9600 that's been upgraded to a G4/1Ghz, 1.5GB RAM, and SATA drives can run openSUSE 11.0 very fast. It is limited by it's 50Mhz memory bus, but that's not a really a deal breaker for most prodcutivity stuff or web browsing, Movie reencoding is tho. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org