OK,…I just had to gloat a little bit. I’ve been with Linux about 3 years,…but never tried OpenSuse. Too complicated (I thought). Wouldn’t work on my older computers (I thought). I could never get my dinky little dialup service setup in it (I thought). Boy,…how wrong I was. Here I am with my shiny new install of OpenSuse 11.2…and it’s running better (using less memory) than the other distros I’ve tried on this older Dell Optiplex (P4–2.8Ghz–768Mb ram–160G hd). Sweet!-- It took me awhile,…but the dialup is working just fine (using it right now). 
Hi,
Welcome to the forum. Good to know you’re up and running in the greenside (openSUSE color)
Happy New Year.
Welcome to openSUSE forum and community.
Have a lot of fun!
If you have any problems, issues. We all will be glad to provide help here.
Happy new year.
Enjoy
nitebreez,
Welcome to OpenSuSe & its forum!
We love to help & we always love to hear from happy users like you!
Welcome - what a good way to start the New Year!
hey, WELCOME…
happy to see success…
if/when you get a chance, peek in on the community’s Hardware
Compatibility List <http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/> and see if any words
there fit your experience with your specific machine…
and, if not see if you can figure out how to update/edit…
thanks,
–
palladium
Thanks for the warm welcome! I just did a complete re-install (this time with the Xfce desktop). That’s running even better on this older Dell. I added the “Gnome System Monitor”,…and it shows that OpenSUSE is only using somewhere between 11% and 20% ram–(that’s a VAST improvement over anything else). And I was running basic installs of distros with LXDE. (I’m quite impressed.)