Comments on: SuSE 10.0 Needs A New Home http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2005/10/31/suse-100-needs-a-new-home/ "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." - James Dean Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:57:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Don Ray http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2005/10/31/suse-100-needs-a-new-home/#comment-13 Don Ray Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:06:54 +0000 http://chiriquichatter.net/blog/?p=66#comment-13 Thanks for the comment Henry. I really wasn’t surprised by the shortage of horsepower on my old box. I had kept it because I had thought I might use the box solely as a firewall and if I had done that I would have put in a minimal installation. However, I no longer have that need and want go get back to just having a good box to do a little playing around with Linux. It is just a diversion for a rainy day. The new release of SuSE looks really good. Since my needs are for general purpose and for the Internet and not for games or other programs that require Windows, I can see the possibility of this being my main box. The latest Gnome is pretty slick and competes very well with a Windows environment. Thanks for the comment Henry. I really wasn’t surprised by the shortage of horsepower on my old box. I had kept it because I had thought I might use the box solely as a firewall and if I had done that I would have put in a minimal installation.

However, I no longer have that need and want go get back to just having a good box to do a little playing around with Linux. It is just a diversion for a rainy day. The new release of SuSE looks really good. Since my needs are for general purpose and for the Internet and not for games or other programs that require Windows, I can see the possibility of this being my main box. The latest Gnome is pretty slick and competes very well with a Windows environment.

]]> By: Henry Smith http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2005/10/31/suse-100-needs-a-new-home/#comment-12 Henry Smith Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:38:55 +0000 http://chiriquichatter.net/blog/?p=66#comment-12 I am a long time Linux user, and have been using SuSE since 8.0 and Mandrake before that. I think the advice that so many give about trying Linux on a discarded computer is dated. A couple of years ago, most Linux distros worked just fine on low horsepower computers, and there are some distros that will work just fine with them today, but SuSE, Mandrake, and Fedora are not among them unless you do a custom install and leave out the memory hogs. The latest distros running KDE or Gnome require almost as much power as Win XP for decent performance. If you want to see that old box perform, try something like Feather Linux. http://featherlinux.berlios.de/ I use a bootable CD version for rescuing data from older Win PCs that will no longer boot from the HD, and it is just as fast from the CD as Win98 from the hard drive on a ~200 MHz processor. You should be real happy with the performance of your new box. Henry I am a long time Linux user, and have been using SuSE since 8.0 and Mandrake before that. I think the advice that so many give about trying Linux on a discarded computer is dated. A couple of years ago, most Linux distros worked just fine on low horsepower computers, and there are some distros that will work just fine with them today, but SuSE, Mandrake, and Fedora are not among them unless you do a custom install and leave out the memory hogs. The latest distros running KDE or Gnome require almost as much power as Win XP for decent performance. If you want to see that old box perform, try something like Feather Linux. http://featherlinux.berlios.de/ I use a bootable CD version for rescuing data from older Win PCs that will no longer boot from the HD, and it is just as fast from the CD as Win98 from the hard drive on a ~200 MHz processor.

You should be real happy with the performance of your new box.

Henry

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