I am new here and i want to find out wich is the best suse distribution for a old laptop.
My configuration is:
Intel Celeron 2.8ghz(128k l2)
Ati video card (16mb)
496 mb ram( shared with video card)
60 gb ide hdd
wireless/lan/etc.
What you recommend for this machine ? I am using Opensuse for a while and i like it but this old computer cannot run quite well 11.4.
I wish to install another distribution that will run faster because it take like 2-3 seconds to pop up the menu or open a console…
thank you very much.
with so little RAM (shared) i would suggest you give Puppy Linux a try…
otherwise, openSUSE 11.4 running either LXDE or Xfce should be pretty
ok…but, you will probably have to have some patience at times and
should not plan to run desktop effects and have wonderful spinning
cubes, etc etc etc…
if you could up the RAM to 1 GB openSUSE 12.1 should run fine.
LXDE is worth trying; you will get a warning about having less than 1Gb memory but ignore this. It isn’t important if you are installing directly - only if you are using a Live CD. I have a different LXDE distro running on a machine with 64b memory - albeit slowly if you type too quickly in Abiword. So you should get reasonable performance with the amount of memory you have.
With the standard openSUSE installation you only need about 1½Gb space on the hard disk for the system.
i have no posibility to make an upgrade for memory so i will have to use this one.maybe suse 10 will do the job ?
Puppy linux is based on wich distribution ?
On 11/30/2011 12:26 PM, myhay1208 wrote:
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> i have no posibility to make an upgrade for memory so i will have to use
> this one. maybe suse 10 will do the job ?
openSUSE 10.x is no longer supported…don’t even think about it…
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is supported if you purchase the upgrade
license (or whatever they call it, see www.suse.com)
> Puppy linux is based on wich distribution ?
Puppy Linux is a distribution just like openSUSE, Debian, Red Hat and
others are a distribution…
there are several variants of Puppy available which are based on
it–just like Ubuntu is based on Debian, so is Fatdog64 based on Puppy…
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!
If openSUSE lxde doesn’t suit you, try Minino Galpon; this is a Galician distro - so the only languages are Galician, Spanish and English - but it uses Debian packages; so once you have installed it, you can update it with whatever will run on your hardware. Though most of the forum messages are in Galician or Spanish, if you use English, you will get a helpful English reply.
If you are used to OpenSUSE, just run it with LXDE. That is far easier on a machine than Gnome or KDE. If you had a Pentium I’d say you definitely had enough horsepower to run LXDE, but a Celeron … hmmm … maybe. They’re so much cheaper because they’re so much weaker.
Puppy needs far less power, but you’ll have to learn a new distro.
I have Ubuntu LXDE running on a Pentium III Mobile 1133 MHZ with 512 M ram. It’s okay, not snappy, but definitely useable.
I have Puppy running on a Pentium MMX 233 MHZ 162 M ram. Again, it’s okay, not snappy, but useable.
The LXDE desktop if far more … modern … . While Puppy runs on older machines, LXDE is more desirable, I’d say. Not to put down Puppy, it’s amazing for it’s low resource needs.
Please let us know how that Celeron is able to perform. And don’t rely on the Live CD performance. That’s different than installed performance.
While I run opensuse on all my newer hardware I can highly recommend Bodhilinux.com It uses enlightenment and gives a very nice graphical environment while keeping the speed fast. I use it on a celeron 700mhz laptop with 512mb. It’s based on ubuntu Lucid so you get great package support.