On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 22:01, doc wrote:
Question: Will SuSE 8.0 really load and run OK on a 166MHz laptop with 64M RAM and a 3gig HDD? Or do I need at least 266MHz and perhaps more RAM and HDD space?
I am thinking of an IBM 600 series 266MHz ... better choice in the under-$500. range to match with SuSE 8?
Hi Doc! -+-+ This is not a flame!!! +-+- Why does everyone keep asking if SuSE 8.0 will run under *old* hardware xyz...?! It's Linux -- plain and simple! It will run on a 486 with 16M of ram and only needs 200M of HD! :) Now, obviously that's not for any type of monster box running every program available... :^D Just please remember to think about what you're really asking. If you're asking whether KDE3 with all the trimmings will run on that box, then say so! If you're just asking whether Linux will run, ditto. If you're asking what's the best setup I can use this hardware for w/ or w/o X interfaces, say that! </rant> --- pardon me getting carried away. :^o To answer your question, I've installed a ton of packages and it only came to about 2G. Remember, the DVD is only 4.4G and half of that is the source! ;) The system won't be incredible powerful in the X world, and any system running X apps of any nature won't be super happy with only 64M ram. (give it a good amount of swap) Probably run Icewm as the X Windows Manager, and I would really trim the networking packages down, not running any services except SSH. The other option you could do is to use it as a THIN-CLIENT to connect to a Terminal Server. I would work really well as a thin client. ;) Travis.