It’s time to upgrade my 20 yr old Intel desktop. I’m looking at Beelink, not sure which model, maybe S12. I wish to stick with Leap/SLE and KDE but most of what I’ve read is Tumbleweed & gnome. Anyone know if Beelink will run Leap w/ KDE? I also want to run a virtualbox Host on it for some older OS’s as clients.
@6520302 I have one here running Aeon it’s an S12 model with the N100 CPU. Works great on Aeon using TPM 2 with measured boot, so no secure boot enabled.
What are your VM requirements, it’s only 4 cores…
It should be fine with Leap, Gen 12.7 GPU.
System:
Kernel: 6.13.7-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
Desktop: GNOME v: 48.0 tk: GTK v: 3.24.49 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM
Distro: Aeon
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: AZW product: MINI S v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: AZW model: MINI S v: 10 serial: <superuser required> part-nu: 01
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: ADLNV104 date: 02/06/2023
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400
serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel N100 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Alder Lake rev: 0
cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 758 min/max: 700/3400 cores: 1: 758 2: 758 3: 758 4: 758
bogomips: 6451
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-N [UHD Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Xe
ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:46d1
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: Dell P2018H res: 1600x900 dpi: 94
diag: 494mm (19.4")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast gbm:
drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL-N)
device-ID: 8086:46d1 display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
type: integrated-gpu driver: mesa intel device-ID: 8086:46d1 device: 1
type: cpu driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo gpu: gputop,
intel_gpu_top, lsgpu x11: xprop
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-N PCH High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:54c8
API: ALSA v: k6.13.7-1-default status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel CNVi: Wi-Fi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
chip-ID: 8086:54f0
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: N/A driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-10:3 chip-ID: 8087:0026
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
lmp-v: 11
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.16 TiB used: 627.22 GiB (52.6%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC M.2 PCIe SSD
size: 238.47 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 35.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC Solid State Disk
size: 953.87 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 234.46 GiB used: 23.98 GiB (10.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
mapped: aeon_root
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 4 GiB used: 297.8 MiB (7.3%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-3: /home size: 234.46 GiB used: 23.98 GiB (10.2%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/dm-0 mapped: aeon_root
ID-4: /opt size: 234.46 GiB used: 23.98 GiB (10.2%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/dm-0 mapped: aeon_root
ID-5: /var size: 234.46 GiB used: 23.98 GiB (10.2%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/dm-0 mapped: aeon_root
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.4 GiB used: 2.94 GiB (19.1%)
Processes: 287 Power: uptime: 0h 13m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 257
default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 27
Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 alt: 13 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37
running-in: ptyxis-agent pinxi: 3.3.37-8
I’m primarily interested in accessing old financial data on DOS & on OS/2 VM’s. This would be less than 2-3 times per year. I also have Win10 vm client but I don’t have a need for that, I used it rarely and will wipe that vm. Since you mention cores I’ll look at other Beelink products and see what they offer. My ancient desktop is Ivy Bridge quad core i7-3770 and I am aware that it will not run Leap 16 so that is the main reason I’m looking to upgrade.
I have seen your other older posts. I have not seen anything on Beelink & Leap/kde so wasn’t sure it would be suitable. Until yesterday I was unaware of all of alternatives like microOS, Kalpa, Aeon, & never knew about slowroll or flatpak’s. Guess I don’t spend enough time on the forum 
Thanks for the info
@6520302 Well it comes with Windows 11 Pro, you can always pop a SSD in there and use that as it comes with the mount and cable. However you wouldn’t be able to run the likes of Aeon as that’s single bare-metal boot. I suspect you only need one core for those vm’s so should run fine.
You mean W11 is preloaded on the SSD? So you are suggesting I could use an external SSD to run openSuse? Or am I all mixed up?
@6520302 Either or, I just booted into Windows to check it was activated, shut it down and wiped the NVMe device. But then I replaced it with another Silicon Power is my go to M.2 and SSD provider at the moment. So I have Aeon on a 250GB M.2 NVMe then I also have a 1TB (Silicon Power) SATA SSD in there, it’s my rsync target for other machines to backup user data.