On 06/15/2014 06:47 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The "configuration setting" was selected by the installation itself. Yes, the machine /is/ old, but I don't see anything anywhere that says that the processor (an Athlon XP) or the video card (a GeForce 6200) or the memory (2 GB) is not going to work.
Work? Yes. I have machines with far less than that, but I don't dream of using KDE4 on them.
+1 I have a 800MHz single core with 1G of memory under my desk running as DHCP/DNS + LDAP/Radius authenticator and a 30G drive. This is an old desktop from a decade or more ago that once ran W/98 for some primitive office functions. It was retired to the Closet of Anxieties from when I re-deployed it running openSuse, now on 13.1. And I would not dream of running KDE one it either! The mobo has a SiS graphics card but in reality all work on it is X-over-SSH. Of course during installation I can NOT select many things such as word processing, expensive Dms, and more. Yes, they can all fit on the 30G drive but I want some space for the LDAP database since I also use it for other things. The joke in the days when UNIX ran a small (and by today's standards incredibly underpowered) PDP-11 was that EMACS was an acronym for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping". Today we have virtual memory paging systems so you cn run an eight GIGABYTE application in just 1 gigbyte of memory. But as they say, "Virtual memory means virtual performance". -- "What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter." -- Peter Drucker -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org