Suse 10 Review

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:24:33PM -0500, 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"?

Well I find Debian 3.1 wiht a 2.4 kernel runs just fine on a 486DX2/66
with 48M, although that is more than twice as fast I must admit.

Len Sorensen
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