On 10/29/2007 01:24 PM, raihan hasnain wrote: > > > YaST does the same. It removes the dependency packages. There's still a CLI > command I can't remember. I'll let you know after little searching. >
Thanks; I will wait eagerly for any news from you > Using ubuntu for a long time made me "apt-get" long ago ;) > > By the way, I don't use SuSE as it seems too slow on my machine (my GF > complains the same) GF = what exactly?? Grand Father? God Father? Girl Friend? Anyway, just kidding :-) that's not my concern, what I am concerned about though is the configuration of the machine on which SUSE (I am assuming 10.2) is running. People on the net have suggested not to install the "ZMD" & "beagle" pkgs on 10.2; it is supposed to be faster that way. > I don't know how fast 10.3 is. Please let me know the catchy features of > 10.3. You can always read the "release notes"[1] for that... but honestly speaking there isn't much to talk about.... except for the improved boot time. Somewhere on the net (probably openSUSE.org) they were claiming that they have improved the average boot time from 55 seconds to 25 seconds. On my machine[2] however the boot time has improved from something over 60 seconds to something just over 45 seconds.... & frankly speaking I am quite impressed :-) I haven't seen such quick boot time since my Slackware days, but I had an even lower configuration back then[3]. Also on 10.3 there is a progress bar on the boot splash screen that shows the boot progress.... so (speaking from a psychological point of view) it doesn't seem like eternity while you wait for the PC to boot. All the best Emon [1] I can mail that to you (personally) as an attachment as I can't find the link right now [2] Configuration: Processor: Sempron 2400+ (running at 1333MHz) Motherboard: MSI KT6V (Chipset Via 8237) Ram: 512 MB (DDR1 running at 400MHz) HDD: 40GB (PATA) ATA-133 AGP(8x): Radeon 9250 (128MB) running on the open source driver not the proprietary one [3] Configuration: Processor: Duron 800MHz Motherboard: Same as above Ram: 256 MB (SDRAM running at 133MHz) HDD: Same as above AGP(8x): Geforce4 MX440 (64MB) running on the proprietary nVidia driver
