I have a Compaq Presario 7588
It has a PIII at 550 mhz
512 MB Ram
a 30 GB HDD
a DVD drive
and a very weak graphics card (8MB or 16 vram).
Is this enough to run opensuse and use KDE?
Thank you.
Probably Sysreqs - openSUSE
Which for some unexplained reason does not list 11.2
If it were me, I would look at getting a lighter version:
Maybe one from here
Index of /repositories/X11:/lxde/images/iso
which uses LXDE
I really like KDE…
You think if I upgrade the graphics card it would make a difference in running KDE, or should I just stick with LXDE?
Thanks.
One REALLY neat thing about openSUSE-11.2 is the larger number of liveCDs that are available. This is ESPECIALLY true for older PCs.
As caf4926 pointed out, in your case you may be better off going for a more light weight openSUSE version. Some light weight openSUSE-11.2 versions to consider are:
- openSUSE Community Xfce liveCD (good for slightly older PCs
) Index of /repositories/X11:/xfce/images/iso - openSUSE Community LXDE liveCD (good for really old PCs
) Index of /repositories/X11:/lxde/images/iso - openSUSE Community Enlightentment Desktop (SuSE-On-Active-Diet (SOAD)) liveCD (good for really old PCs
) http://sda.scwlab.com/soad_linux.html
One can put in the CD in one’s CD drive, boot and test without installing anything.
On really old PCs, one can also install from a text mode (saving memory during the install) and after the text mode install is done the PC will boot to a graphical X window. To install via the text mode, boot to the liveCD and press F3 when the 1st boot/splash menu appears. Select “text”. This will boot to a full screen login. Login as user “linux” (no quotes) with <enter> as password (except for SOAD liveCD which requires “soad” (no quotes) as password). Then type “su” (no quotes) with <enter> as password (except for SOAD liveCD which requires “soad” (no quotes) as password). Then type “yast” and navigate to “miscellaneous” and select the installation from there. One is given lots of menus from then on to help the installation. Note one navigates in “yast” with the tab, spacebar and arrow keys.
Here is the wiki with the above and more information: Derivatives - openSUSE
… wrt 11.2 LXDE, once on the hard drive it is a bit buggy in the boot, and there may be a fix you need to apply to sort that. Its documented in the link LXDE - openSUSE under troubleshooing.
A PIII at 550 mhz with 512 MB Ram should run KDE4 but it WILL be slow. Very slow. You will be limited as to the # of applications at one time.
Can you tell us more about this weak graphics card? ATI ? nVidia? Intel ? via/chrome? other ?