Suse 10 Review

[Peter]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Paul King wrote:

> I wasn't so easily impressed. It is nice Linux is getting any attention at all in
> the major media. But of the "smorgasbord" of software he mentions -- no mention
> of OpenOffice? I have to react with amusement as to what they were trying to do.
>
> I am surprised that he only went as low as a 466 MHz processor. I didn't think
> Suse would have set the hardware "bar" so high.
>
> However, I attempted an install of a fairly recent distro (2.2 kernel, if I
> recall), which ended up running slow on a 486DX-33 (32 MB RAM) I had (and still
> have). And I don't just mean slower, but even the TTY console was intolerably
> slow. Has there been an actual abandonment of certain hardware it used to
> support, which they would now deem "legacy"?

The tty on a 33MHz machine is slow, period. I still have 33MHz machines 
(two) that work and they are slow slow. That's the way it is. 33MHz 
machines have problems keeping up with 115kBaud serial streams while not 
doing anything else, for example (of course no deep FIFOs).

Peter
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