On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:44:17AM +0100, jdd wrote:
Rasmus Plewe a écrit :
Then there is the "theoretically absolute minimum installation, using all the tweaks you can get". That would be the 512/256MB installations, probably running out of disk space as soon as the user tries to save his .bash_history, and having no graphical resolution to speak of (why should they? The system is not usable for someone sitting in front of it anyway).
sorry to say, but this is plain ridiculous. I have right now a server running very well and serving mailing lists and a wiki with only 128Mb ram and 20Gb HDD.
That's why I added the "of course there are scenarios where a minimum installation is the right thing" part. And stressed the focus on the end user. Would you be willing to use your server above as your desktop computer?
I know of many people that can't afford to buy a computer and are very happy to get for free a 256Mb ram 20Gb HDD PIV (I can spread many of them, from company renewing program)
and openSUSE, even kde, runs on these machines
Of course they do. But users normally[0] don't want to run openSUSE or KDE. They want to run firefox, kmail, acrobat reader and openOffice. Did you try to start OOo on a machine with 256MB? And then work with it? What I, probably[1] not too well, tried to point out is that the expectations need to be set correctly. If all you've got are 512MB, you can make do with it and work around the limits. But "minimum hardware requirements" imply to me that there is no limit for normal use. Rasmus [0] Extrapolating from me to "the user", and making up the missing bits, of course. ;-) [1] Hmm, make that "definitely"... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org