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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
