Refilwe Seete a écrit :
If we decide to find specs that fit the distro we definitely need some standards, otherwise we'll end up not much better off in the end due to our different views on performance. A few ideas:
be aware that the memory limit is reached *at install time*, specifically when the hard drive is partitionned (no swap available). The available RAM is a good index of the computer value, because it's he ost limiting and than at a given moment, new computers uses the same amount of ram and have a similar power. right now, in France, we can have *for free* computer with 256Mb ram, 40Gb HDD. This is enough for basic use (internet surfing, basic use of openoffice). For nearly nothing, one can find 512M ram/ 80Gb HDD PC (I just find one on the pavement, 100 m of my home, I'm installing 11.2 on it without any problem :-) So for 11.3, minimal use should be 512Mo (256 being a little better, giving some countries are late) modern computer have at least 2Gb ram and no problem at all running anything.
1. Length of install if the user accepts all defaults - What's the maximum acceptable time? 60 minutes? 90 minutes? 120 minutes?
I juust finished the install on the found computer: less than 30 minutes for the default (no other system, of course)
- Does it work? What is the minimum performance - say rendering time when scrolling, or some other measure
this have little meaning. most tasks can be acheived with any modern computer. The longer task I know is compiling a HD Blu-Ray film. On a 2 years old computer, with 2Gb ram and a reasonable dual processor this took 12 hours, but on windows, I couldn't do this with kdenlive (crash) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org