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07-12-2005, 09:41 PM
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EGO MY LEGO
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Can SuSe. 9.2 Professional run on this PC
i have an old packard bell 133(yes you read that correctly) and i want to put SuSe 9.2 professional on it. right now the pc is at my parents place, but if i remember correctly the specs are:
133mhz Pentium 1 72mb of ram (2 32mb chips, and 8mb of built in ram) 2gb hard drive integrated audio/video i think it has a 56k dial up modem no network card im planning on purchasing a bigger hard drive and a network card for this machine, but i wanted some input from you guys on if its even worth trying on this machine. i dont plan on using it for anything special except to learn more about linux SuSe. any feedback would be appreciated. thanks may the force be with you
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07-12-2005, 10:44 PM
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Chop Chop
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As long as nothings nVidia, go for it. SuSE has problems with nVidia. Yeah and get a bigger HD definately
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07-12-2005, 11:00 PM
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EGO MY LEGO
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the video is integrated into the mobo i believe. yeah 2gb just doesnt get the job done anymore.
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07-13-2005, 02:45 AM
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I am not an expert on SUSe but with that much ram the system will probably be a little slow.
I don't know how easy it is to download drivers to SUSe, but to Nvidias credit, they are one of the first to offer Linux compatable drivers for their graphic cards. Whether they have a driver for a system that age is another story, but you can try.
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07-13-2005, 03:07 AM
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damn small linux might be better (thats what I'm doing with my old compaq) only thing is you have to mess around with the partitions to get it to be installed in the hard drive rather than being where you have to put in the cd every time you want to run it.
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07-18-2005, 06:11 AM
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07-18-2005, 06:12 AM
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The issue is more of what window manager to use. KDE and Gnome are resource intensive. IceWM gives a good balence of features and speed. Or better yet..ditch that baby GUI and go command line!
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