fishingmandan wrote:
> it was a streamlined install disk with no
> extra packages,
who is to say if their process of ‘streamlining’ was good for you, it
sounds not…
> got it from APC magazine free install disk.
their goal is to sell mags, not faithfully ‘streamline’ mainstream
distros so they can squeeze three, four or more on one disk…
> I had windows on 40 Gig then used “G-partition” to partition the
> Hardrive to make space for Open Suse.
well, you don’t say what kind of windows, but we both know that a 40
gig drive is pretty much ancient history in the grand scheme of
Internet Age…
so i doubt your machine meets the minimum specifications to run any
full up distro:
- Pentium* III 500 MHz or higher processor (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or
higher or any AMD64 for Intel* EM64T processor recommended)
- 512 MB physical RAM (1 GB recommended)
- 3 GB available disk space (more recommended)
- 800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 or higher recommended)
if you want to run Linux on a machine with less than the recommended,
then you need to pick something other than OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora,
etc, see one of my previous posts on the subject:
http://tinyurl.com/ylf8zq9
> Seriously I have just installed this on my computer and have not even
> had time to get into it before it has crashed.
i suggest if you have the recommended (not minimum) hardware that
you download a live CD <http://software.opensuse.org/112/en> and boot
from it, see how firefox runs from the CD, etc…
these tips to new-to-Linux folks will save you a lot of time when
climbing the learning curve (which is steep, but worth it):
http://en.opensuse.org/Download_Help
http://tinyurl.com/yhf65pv
http://tinyurl.com/ycly3eg
when you come back with questions you might forgo the attitude
revealed in you “…is this the great Linux?” because doing so will
help us assume you come for help, rather than to kick sand…
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