On Wednesday 15 February 2006 06:52, jdd wrote:
Pascal Bleser wrote:
Jean-Daniel could you *please* avoid such stupid and polemic statements. Of course no one wants to "push all these people out of SUSE world", such statements are - excuse me - just plain dumb.
alas it's not stupid. this has been the SUSE way from the beginning. each new suse asks for more computer power, just for install with yast.
Actually, it is stupid. Stupid and inflammatory. Now, a graphical installer having more capabilities added to it... you expect it to need _less_ power? More abilities = more requirements. Welcome to modern computing.
Did you see some statement somewhere that SUSE Linux is not supposed to run on older hardware ? I didn't. Hence, this is just a bug on this particular notebook, that's it.
alas, I do!!!!
http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/sysreqs.html
"Main memory: At least 256 MB; 512 MB recommended"
and most low end computers have only 128
http://www.pckado.com/catalogue_client/Main.php?do=stdList&rubrique=ordinat eurs
so, true, my laptop can't.
For a full graphical environment, yes. This is not a SUSE specific issue, this is GNOME & KDE - again, we're talking about this whole modern technology thing. Ask it to do more, and it needs more. You want less ram to be needed? Use a more lightweight DE.
notice that I don't really need 10.0, I could really well live with 9.1 if the security upadtes where here. after all the kernel is already 2.6...
As long as you're keeping it up to date, there isn't really anything wrong with that. I do believe in up to date linux everywhere, though. I would recommend a text-mode install, if you have not done so already, or perhaps autoyast pre-tweaked for your config.
so may be the solution could be to keep _one_ low end distribution downloadable and with at least security updates for ten years.
Ten years?!?! Noone is going to do that. Noone. You want it? You do it. You support it.
or may be we need a full console install, with no semi-graphical interface
jdd :-(
Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin