On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Rajko M wrote:
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 07:48, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2006-12-05 at 19:20 -0600, Rajko M wrote:
I thought that more people with underpowered machines are present on openSUSE, but that is obviously not the case :-)
Why do you say that? I'm interested, but I'm no developper, I don't think I can contribute. What kind of contribution is needed?
To make MiniSUSE running, it is necessary to understand Installation, as it is proven that even the 10.1 can run in text mode or some GUI with modest requests to hardware. I tested it with 300 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM, and I'm satisfied. It is not flying, but for sure not crawling like under KDE. The same machine had FreeBSD, and PC BSD with KDE, and it was slow during KDE startup, but usable afterwards, so there is room for optimization.
I was able to install 10.2 on a 60MHz Machine with 128 MB RAM. I was not
able to get it to install with 96 MB RAM. KDE is not really usable. But
you can run X. It was OK woth 4-5 Xterm's. SeaMonkey was a bit SLOW. It
would get slugish. There are better OS/Distro for this class of machine.
It did take 10-14 hours to install. I did have to create a 750 MB swap
partition to install and I had to do it in Text mode. But it worked. It
was not doing well or failed on a 32 MHz machine so I stopped/gave up the
install. I do not remember right now too much playing with various
configurations. I no longer am using 10.2 on my 60 MHz machine. I had to
over-write it to do real work for a client. But I thought I should report
my findings. I really like 10.2.
Thanks so much for a great Release. The new paterns really assist with
lower class machines.
New HW is comodity and made to break. I have had 8 machines since 2001/2
DIE but my older machines just keep on going. I had 2 2.0 GHz machines
dies 1-2 years after purchase. Just after waranty expires.. Other were
fast but died. I sware newer machines are made do die right safter
warenty. expires.
Good Luck,
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Boyd Gerber