OpenSUSE 11.2 seems to be fast approaching; Milestones are being released at quite a good speed one after the other; but since I can’t test them right now for my own personal reasons; I have to ask: are any of you running Milestone 7 smoothly on a system with the following or similar specs:
Intel Pentium D 3.00 GHz
1.5 GB RAM
128 MB video memory
Sorry if it sounds silly that a Linux distro wouldn’t run with such specs, but I need to know, because I’m going to try out the final version when it’s released. And as the system requirements for final versions and pre-release ones are almost the same (the only changes are mainly bug-fixes) I’m sure any answer would help.
I only found out about openSUSE some weeks ago, (I’ve been trying to learn as much as possible about is in that time) and I thought as 11.2 was coming out so soon, it would be pointless to install 11.1 right now.
Any replies will be appreciated.
Hi
It may be better to post the hwinfo output as this will show all the
internals, eg network wireless sound etc, run the following (all one
command) and post back the URL;
Review the information before posting the link in case there is info in
there that you may feel isn’t relevant and edit the hwinfo.txt file and
re-upload.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.29-0.1-default
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> OpenSUSE 11.2 seems to be fast approaching; Milestones are being
> released at quite a good speed one after the other;
Release date is about mid November.
> but since I can’t
> test them right now for my own personal reasons; I have to ask: are any
> of you running Milestone 7 smoothly on a system with the following or
> similar specs:
>
> Intel Pentium D 3.00 GHz
> 1.5 GB RAM
> 128 MB video memory
I would say “yes”
> Sorry if it sounds silly that a Linux distro wouldn’t run with such
> specs, but I need to know, because I’m going to try out the final
> version when it’s released. And as the system requirements for final
> versions and pre-release ones are almost the same (the only changes are
> mainly bug-fixes) I’m sure any answer would help.
> I only found out about openSUSE some weeks ago, (I’ve been trying to
> learn as much as possible about is in that time) and I thought as 11.2
> was coming out so soon, it would be pointless to install 11.1 right
> now.
> Any replies will be appreciated.
If possible, test the Milestone 7 LiveCD which requires no installation at
all and will allow you to get a fast preview.
Your system eats my little eee 1000 for breakfast, and it runs current suse 11.2 quite nicely - although video plays better when not on KDE 4. Personally, I’d say consider installing an alternative WM, like one of the *boxes, or a tiling wm like xmonad, to run when you need to squeeze the power out.
If possible, test the Milestone 7 LiveCD which requires no installation at all and will allow you to get a fast preview.
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Yes, I know I could do that; but I don’t want to, for two reasons:
First, downloading such a large file (the openSUSE ISO is something below 700 MB)will consume lots of my Internet money.
Second, an OS running directly from a LiveCD, even though it has the advantage of not needing a hard disk install, runs with significant performace loss as compared to an OS running from the hard disk.
BrownieCat wrote:
> If possible, test the Milestone 7 LiveCD which requires no installation
> at all and will allow you to get a fast preview.
>
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> Camaleón
>
> Yes, I know I could do that; but I don’t want to, for two reasons:
> First, downloading such a large file (the openSUSE ISO is something below
> 700 MB)will consume lots of my Internet money.
> Second, an OS running directly from a LiveCD, even though it has the
> advantage of not needing a hard disk install, runs with significant
> performace loss as compared to an OS running from the hard disk.
You’re asking if it will run?
But you know it’ll be too slow to try?
Sounds kinda funny to me
> Yes, I know I could do that; but I don’t want to, for two reasons:
> First, downloading such a large file (the openSUSE ISO is something below
> 700 MB)will consume lots of my Internet money.
O.k. I’m aware that not all places are “broadbanded”
I told you to test a LiveCD just only for you (well, your computer) to get a
first contact with the kernel that will be bundled with OS 11.2 and
checking that all devices are properly detected before performing a full
install.
> Second, an OS running directly from a LiveCD, even though it has the
> advantage of not needing a hard disk install, runs with significant
> performace loss as compared to an OS running from the hard disk.
Well, from my experience, I can tell you that LiveCDs are “very slow” in
comparison to a full-installed system, so if LiveCD runs just “fine”, the
installed system almost sure it will go far better
Since everyone seems to think my computer is a ‘speed demon’ ( ) and should run openSUSE 11.2 very competently, there’s no reason for me to test it right now. All the ‘bug reporting’ of openSUSE I wanted to do to contribute to openSUSE will have to be done after it’s released.
It might run too fast. It might get to the end before you even have a chance to see it.
Hmm… It is possible to download deltas between the milestone ISOs, as far as I know. It may also be possible to get a delta from the last milestone or RC to the finished product.
Might be worth looking into if you don’t want to wait.
