Re: Which version?

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:54:41 +0100, taco wrote:

Steve wrote:

My computers are dated - I have a P3/500 laptop (384Mb RAM) and
P3/750 desktop (768Mb RAM). I last used SuSE at version 8 and I'd
welcome comments on whether the current/recent releases will run
reasonably on old hardware.

I don't use gaming or heavy duty video effects, just browsing and
normal office type stuff. I would like to be able to run VMWare
workstation for some Windows CAD stuff I can't avoid.

I wouldn't install any suse 10.X on this hardware.

Steve wants to know whether it will work for him, not what you would do :-)

I have a PIII 600MHz, with 384MB running Slackware 12 with KDE and it's
absolutely fine, smooth and usable and not noticeably slow. It does
everyday tasks just fine. Building OpenOffice isn't all that quick, I
admit.

The machine next to that one is a PIII 1GHz with 512MB, it runs openSuse
10.3 without any issues or complaints at all, and if this was my only
machine I wouldn't desperately feel the need for anything else.

Perhaps a very
light-weight graphics shell (so not kde/gnome) is possible with these
versions, which is not an improvement for you. Perhaps a suse 9.2 or 9.3
could work on the P3/750 with a reasonable response.

See above. KDE is not that bad.

A better way to save memory and power is to disable any non-essential
services. Daemons eat memory and clock cycles.

If you also start vmware with a windows OS you're out of luck anyway. This
will not work on any of these machines. You call linux +
vmware/windows 'not heavy duty'?

Here we're totally agreed. Virtual machines are hard work for most
hardware, for this use one needs all the memory and power one can get.
.

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