On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Rajko M wrote: > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 07:48, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Tuesday 2006-12-05 at 19:20 -0600, Rajko M wrote: > > > I thought that more people with underpowered machines are present on > > > openSUSE, but that is obviously not the case :-) > > > > Why do you say that? I'm interested, but I'm no developper, I don't think > > I can contribute. What kind of contribution is needed? > > To make MiniSUSE running, it is necessary to understand Installation, as it is > proven that even the 10.1 can run in text mode or some GUI with modest > requests to hardware. I tested it with 300 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM, and I'm > satisfied. It is not flying, but for sure not crawling like under KDE. > The same machine had FreeBSD, and PC BSD with KDE, and it was slow during KDE > startup, but usable afterwards, so there is room for optimization.
I was able to install 10.2 on a 60MHz Machine with 128 MB RAM. I was not able to get it to install with 96 MB RAM. KDE is not really usable. But you can run X. It was OK woth 4-5 Xterm's. SeaMonkey was a bit SLOW. It would get slugish. There are better OS/Distro for this class of machine. It did take 10-14 hours to install. I did have to create a 750 MB swap partition to install and I had to do it in Text mode. But it worked. It was not doing well or failed on a 32 MHz machine so I stopped/gave up the install. I do not remember right now too much playing with various configurations. I no longer am using 10.2 on my 60 MHz machine. I had to over-write it to do real work for a client. But I thought I should report my findings. I really like 10.2. Thanks so much for a great Release. The new paterns really assist with lower class machines. New HW is comodity and made to break. I have had 8 machines since 2001/2 DIE but my older machines just keep on going. I had 2 2.0 GHz machines dies 1-2 years after purchase. Just after waranty expires.. Other were fast but died. I sware newer machines are made do die right safter warenty. expires. Good Luck, -- Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
