At 15:07 29/07/2002 , Derek Fountain wrote:
Reading Fabio's original post, I see his 'test bed' is a pentium 150 - and that is just *too slow* for yast2 (GUI *or* console). In fact, on a 150, it's going to be pretty impossible to run any GUI.
Rubbish.
Sorry - can't let this pass.
You can get perfectly acceptable GUI performance from a low end 486 if you run a light enough desktop environment.
We're talking about yast2 - and on a p166 I made the mistake of trying to view all packages in yast2 (ncurses text mode - zall) and it took *five hours* to display the list. That is unacceptable.
I've done it, and so have many of the older Linux hands on this list.
Oooooh - and just how old do you have to be? I'm 48, and have been working with *nix since 1980. I'm *far* from being an 'expert' - but I think you are the one talking rubbish. SuSE have produced a wonderful distribution - which in general I'm happy with. But there are problem areas, and one of those is yast2 on older, slower machines. I think it is fair to point that out - for the benefit of those about to try installing on an older machine. My advise - stick with 7.2/7.3 and yast1 on anything older than a p300 Cheers all, Tony
Expecting to run the standard administration application on a low end machine should not result in unacceptable performance. A GUI will always run slower than a console based app, so running in text mode is the obvious option, except in the case of YaST2 because the text mode user interface is so hard to use.
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