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Allan Noriel Estrella

23 May 2006 23 May '06

17:11

Can I install Suse 10.1 on my machine with a 128 MB rdram? If Suse can be installed, is the machine usable( that is not too slow)?

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suse＠rio.vg

23 May 23 May

17:19

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Allan Noriel Estrella wrote:

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Can I install Suse 10.1 on my machine with a 128 MB rdram? If Suse can be installed, is the machine usable( that is not too slow)?

It depends on what you want to do with it. I've got Xen servers running in 128mb, no problem. If you want a full KDE/Gnome setup with XGL, it's not gonna happen. A lightweight window manager would probably work, the "Base Graphical System without KDE/Gnome".

Dave Cotton

17:23

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On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 13:19 -0400, suse@rio.vg wrote:

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Allan Noriel Estrella wrote:

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Can I install Suse 10.1 on my machine with a 128 MB rdram? If Suse can be installed, is the machine usable( that is not too slow)?

It depends on what you want to do with it. I've got Xen servers running in 128mb, no problem. If you want a full KDE/Gnome setup with XGL, it's not gonna happen. A lightweight window manager would probably work, the "Base Graphical System without KDE/Gnome".

You had better tell that to my portable. 800Mhz and 128mb memory. Runs full KDE. -- Dave Cotton

Alvaro Kuolas

17:31

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Dave Cotton wrote:

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On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 13:19 -0400, suse@rio.vg wrote:

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Allan Noriel Estrella wrote:

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Can I install Suse 10.1 on my machine with a 128 MB rdram? If Suse can be installed, is the machine usable( that is not too slow)?

It depends on what you want to do with it. I've got Xen servers running in 128mb, no problem. If you want a full KDE/Gnome setup with XGL, it's not gonna happen. A lightweight window manager would probably work, the "Base Graphical System without KDE/Gnome".

You had better tell that to my portable. 800Mhz and 128mb memory. Runs full KDE.

Or my "Workstation" with it's Celeron 533MHz and 192MB of SDRAM PC66 Full KDE + Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

suse＠rio.vg

17:44

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Alvaro Kuolas wrote:

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Dave Cotton wrote:

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On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 13:19 -0400, suse@rio.vg wrote:

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Allan Noriel Estrella wrote:

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Can I install Suse 10.1 on my machine with a 128 MB rdram? If Suse can be installed, is the machine usable( that is not too slow)?

It depends on what you want to do with it. I've got Xen servers running in 128mb, no problem. If you want a full KDE/Gnome setup with XGL, it's not gonna happen. A lightweight window manager would probably work, the "Base Graphical System without KDE/Gnome".

You had better tell that to my portable. 800Mhz and 128mb memory. Runs full KDE.

Or my "Workstation" with it's Celeron 533MHz and 192MB of SDRAM PC66 Full KDE + Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

Are either of you running XGL? Are you running Gnome apps at the same time? My laptop is sitting here with 325mb used: KDE, TBird, Firefox, XGL, and a few consoles. (That's not including buffers/cache) Technically speaking, with a big enough swap, you could run anything on very little ram, but what kind of performance do you get?

Matthew Stringer

18:05

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Given that the cost of RAM these is so small (1GB of DDR400 costs about the same as the boxed version of Suse 10.1) there's little reason to see how little you can get away with. On a desktop system with KDE/Gnome you want at least 512MB and a 1.4GHz CPU otherwise you're really restricting the capabilities of the OS and the experience isn't pleasent. Matthew

Per Jessen

18:21

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Matthew Stringer wrote:

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Given that the cost of RAM these is so small (1GB of DDR400 costs about the same as the boxed version of Suse 10.1) there's little reason to see how little you can get away with.

It's not a matter of cost or how little you can get away with, but how much space you've got - or not. For instance, I have a couple of systems that accept a max of 768M.

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On a desktop system with KDE/Gnome you want at least 512MB and a 1.4GHz CPU otherwise you're really restricting the capabilities of the OS and the experience isn't pleasent.

512Mb yes, preferably 1Gb - but CPU-wise you're fine with even just a 400MHz PII. (I occasionally use the KDE desktop on a quad-PIII box). /Per Jessen, Zürich

jdd sur free

18:23

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Matthew Stringer wrote:

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Given that the cost of RAM these is so small (1GB of DDR400 costs about the same as the boxed version of Suse 10.1) there's little reason to see how little you can get away with.

not always possible (nor so cheap on laptops), but of course the better way. the most demanding is the install :-) (at partition time no swap is allowed). 128Mb is good to install, 256Mb is probably the minimum for comfortable work with apps like openoffice. I couldn't install it with 80Mb on an old server (10.0 runs fine), even in minimal text install. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

Carlos E. R.

18:24

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Given that the cost of RAM these is so small (1GB of DDR400 costs about the

That's true for new computers only. For older computers the prices rises, or is even unattainable. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEc1N2tTMYHG2NR9URAv+4AJ0cUhXeAMYsLtNBOAKNyQeYGwRh8gCdHmQd ShfHTy8l1cI6zocUP10GY+E= =KK8X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

James Hatridge

19:26

HI all... On Tuesday 23 May 2006 20:24, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Tuesday 2006-05-23 at 19:05 +0100, Matthew Stringer wrote:

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Given that the cost of RAM these is so small (1GB of DDR400 costs about the

That's true for new computers only. For older computers the prices rises, or is even unattainable.

If anyone needs older memory email me off list I have alot laying around the house, trade etc. JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php

Bryan S. Tyson

24 May 24 May

03:19

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On Tuesday 23 May 2006 02:05 pm, Matthew Stringer wrote:

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On a desktop system with KDE/Gnome you want at least 512MB and a 1.4GHz CPU otherwise you're really restricting the capabilities of the OS and the experience isn't pleasent.

I am running Linux and KDE on a 500 MHz AMD with 384 MB RAM. It runs great, very responsively, and it is very pleasant with one exception: mplayer drops frames. It does better on the DVDs if I switch to IceWM. It is quite watchable, but if you look closely you can see it is still dropping a few frames. So I use KDE 98% of the time, and when I want to play a DVD I temporarily switch to IceWM. Bryan *************************************** Powered by Mepis Linux 3.4-3 KDE 3.5.2 KMail 1.8.3 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************

Carlos E. R.

23 May 23 May

18:30

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-05-24 at 01:11 +0800, Allan Noriel Estrella wrote:

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Can I install Suse 10.1 on my machine with a 128 MB rdram? If Suse can be installed, is the machine usable( that is not too slow)?

It will probably run, yes; the problem will be installing it. The install system I think requires more memory, but I can't find the figure right now. You may be able to do it if the disk contains a swap partition before starting. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEc1TZtTMYHG2NR9URAsYyAJ0dOIBszE0ggZF+HbfVTZqpy3IRiwCbBf/r D0jJ3/HnTSLWe2iaB8wzn2w= =5EZv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

James Knott

24 May 24 May

00:03

New subject: [SLE] ram requirements for Suse 10.1

Allan Noriel Estrella wrote:

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Can I install Suse 10.1 on my machine with a 128 MB rdram? If Suse can be installed, is the machine usable( that is not too slow)?

I haven't tried 10.1 on it, but I recently installed 10.0 on a box with only 128 MB. It's my firewall, so I don't do much with it, and am not worried about desktop performance.

Boyd Lynn Gerber

00:12

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Allan Noriel Estrella wrote:

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Can I install Suse 10.1 on my machine with a 128 MB rdram? If Suse can be installed, is the machine usable( that is not too slow)?

I haven't tried 10.1 on it, but I recently installed 10.0 on a box with only 128 MB. It's my firewall, so I don't do much with it, and am not worried about desktop performance.

I have been able to install with 128 MB as long as I have a 1GB swap available. Without it I have not been able to get it to work. All I get is a hang. I did not and I currently am installing on system with 128 MB with 10.0 just fine. It does take a while. - -- Boyd Gerber ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFEc6UCVtBjDid73eYRAn3jAJ40gnCPaOTMySKv/WTG93nuQzqznQCcCwnW eMHaBr4Z/KfLV5yj/I9Va6M= =KRt2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Allan Noriel Estrella

02:28

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ok i'll try to download 10.1 and install it on my system, i hope it will install and run the full features. i am currently using fc5 and will be deleting it On 24/05/06, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:

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Allan Noriel Estrella wrote:

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Can I install Suse 10.1 on my machine with a 128 MB rdram? If Suse can be installed, is the machine usable( that is not too slow)?

I haven't tried 10.1 on it, but I recently installed 10.0 on a box with only 128 MB. It's my firewall, so I don't do much with it, and am not worried about desktop performance.

I have been able to install with 128 MB as long as I have a 1GB swap available. Without it I have not been able to get it to work. All I get is a hang. I did not and I currently am installing on system with 128 MB with 10.0 just fine. It does take a while.

- -- Boyd Gerber ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/

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Allan Noriel Estrella
Alvaro Kuolas
Boyd Lynn Gerber
Bryan S. Tyson
Carlos E. R.
Dave Cotton
James Hatridge
James Knott
jdd sur free
Matthew Stringer
Per Jessen
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