On 3/31/07, Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A previous message in this thread mentions two machines each with 256Mb! Of course Zen and/or Beagle thrash such a machine. Maybe the sanity of systems with 900MHz/1GHz processors having only 256Mb should be what is in question.
I have several machines running v10.2 with 256MB RAM, an Ahlon 1100, a P3/500 with 160MB running KDE, and a Xeon 2.67Ghz with 128MB as a server. My son's PowerBook G3/266 has 320MB RAM, as does my Thinkpad 390X with a P3/500.
The openSUSE manual says: "At least 256 MB; 512 MB recommended" If someone is at the "least" end of the scale they should expect concomitant performance.
You can run a text mode install with 64MB RAM. You just have to have 256MB for the install. I've run several older machines with 64 or 96MB running text with no issues.
I think this depends on how you use Beagle. Beagle is most useful if it is the first place you go rather than trying to browse to a file. If I start downloading documents in a web browser, Beagle knows about them, and their contents, right away.
Yep, I remove Beagle and ZMD as well as OpenOffice during install. Systems run really well without all those bloated programs running.
I don't think there is any real serious problem desperate to be solved. It seems to be working very well with minimal impact on systems with sufficient resources.
And a lot of people are looking at Linux because it runs well on older systems. Having a base install with ZMD and Beagle isn't going to create a good user experience for a first time user wanting to move away from Windows and the Vista upgrade requirements if you consider a 2Ghz+ system a sufficient system. I have only 1 machine faster than 2Ghz. Why should I have a 3Ghz machine when my Dual Xeon 500Mhz machine with 512MB runs just fine after removing things I don't need? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
