I have Suse 11.4 working well on an oldish Toshiba Portege laptop:
1.25Gb RAM, 40Gb HDD, 1.1GHz processor
I use either KDE or XFCE (v. quick boot) and have no problems. I wondered about upgrading as support for 11.4 will eventually lessen.
I have been using 12.1 on my Desktop Dell GX620 with P4 3.2GHz, 2Gb RAM, 160 Gb HDD and it boots/runs very efficiently.
I did try install with 12.1 DVD on the laptop (nomodeset), and although initial install screen was fine, the Linux kernel took an age to load and after being left with a screen with blinking cursor top left - I abandoned, figuring the old adage “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” applied.
I would be interested in comments as to whether it is worth persisting the 12.1 route from more experienced users.
On 02/16/2012 11:16 AM, idransfi wrote:
> I would be interested in comments as to whether it is worth persisting
> the 12.1 route from more experienced users.
you are asking for an opinion–mine is to stick with 11.4 a while
longer… 12.1 is growing better, but it is not yet ‘there’ for me…
we can expect 11.4 to be supported until September 15th 2012, at least…
plus there is a move afoot to pick it up for long term support via the
Evergreen project, read here on the project http://tinyurl.com/4aflkpy
Thanks for your comments DD - I am going to take your advice and stick with 11.4 - it works well for me.
I switched to Suse a year or so back and have enjoyed Microsoft-free computing since then.
There are challenges, but I am grateful to the Suse community for the incredible knowledge base and helpful comments whenever I get out of my depth
Thanks again!
On 02/17/2012 10:36 AM, idransfi wrote:
> Thanks again!
welcome…remember, it is just my opinion…(but, i like stable,
dependable, reliable, predictable, useable etc…)
there are other folks here who have other ideas…some may be running
12.2 daily already and are not happy if they don’t get the chance to
“fix something” every day…and, “start over” every week…
i’m a user, not a tester (beta tested OS/2 apps for years…though)