On Wednesday 15 February 2006 13:18, jdd wrote: >>Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: >> You can't have a single distro that does everything > >why not :-).
Because it isn't practical. Look at Debian... its stable, works on a variety of platforms.... and development is racing along at the speed of a turtle with 3 broken legs. >of course if it would need a complete rewrite, it would not >be possible. Rewrite... no. A decent amount of effort, sure. As I mentioned, you could lighten the install process by modifying and releasing a "light" SUSE 10, replacing YaST (at installation) with one of the other installers available. Maybe you'd remove KDE and GNOME, and have XFCE, or even Ratpoison. Whatever. >however I feel like there is little to do. After all the >SUSE 9.1 runs on the test machine, what have 10.0 to don't? An updated installer that detects a great number more hardware types, larger images to be copied, a more complete and usable "expert" options, etc, etc, etc. So alot. >there are much more such computers available now than was >before (Linux on a low end 486 always was difficult), much >more customers we should not let go :-) > >jdd :-) And I have an AMD 800 with (now) 256mb ram, running 10.0 beautifully. So whats the problem? I also have a Dell laptop with a p4 1.4, a p4 2.4 workstation, an AMD 700, a dual p500 server, and a 500mhz celeron tablet. All are running SUSE 10, with no problem whatsoever. I really don't see the problem here - the hardware you're talking about isn't "older" or "aging", its honestly damn near ancient. Soon, it'll be about as useful as the KayPro 4 luggable in my basement, and that thing cost $4000 USD back in the day. It was the ultimate business tool at the time... does that make it useful now? Hell no. Its old, and worthless, except as a (very, very large and heavy) keepsake. Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
