Hi,
I am running 11.2 on my Toshiba laptop with Celeron M CPU and 2 GB RAM. Should I fresh install 11.3?
Thanks in advance.
There should be no problem with that kind of hardware. I have 11.3 on a 5 year old laptop with 1.6GHz processor and 1GB RAM. The question really is how much do you want 11.3 improvements. If you are happy and productive with 11.2, it will still be supported for a while so there’s no rush to update.
I have a Toshiba laptop Celeron M with 512mb ram. At this point 11.2 works better than 11.3 on this laptop. I had zero problems with 11.2 but I so far have 2 problems with 11.3:
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It freezes without nomodeset kernel option.
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My wireless card became unusable. It won’t keep a steady connection and it takes ages for sites to load, if ever. It affects all browsers and it’s not a dns or ipv6 problem. I think something got screwed up with ath5k.
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 5a31 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
I found a workaround for my wireless problem over in Ubuntu land. I had to add the nohwcrypt option to ath5k. Now my browser is faster than ever. I added the option in Yast > Network Settings.