On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:45:21 +0530, "komal" agencies_ad1@sancharnet.in said:
Suse 9.1 Live CD that comes with LFY is not at all impressive. However, I was able to run it and one Compaq machine designed exclusively for Linux just kept rebooting. I believe the issue is not with CD quality but with Suse itself. Anyways it took me exactly ten minutes to load desktop. Suse Live CD starts all the unnecessary services like pcmcia, Ssh, Cyrus, postfix and lots more and hogs system resources. Compared to Knoppix Live CD, which I keep handy with me for demonstration Suse Live CD, is plain disaster. I have 850 MHz P 3 and 256 mb ram so my system was supposed to be compatible. After manually shutting down tons of services and manually changing desktop settings I was able to play little bit. To my surprise Suse Live cd came with SElinux enable by default. I am clueless how to disable it. I was unable to create any files and folders even accessing windows partitions were impossible. I thought I would be able to access windows folders on the fly but it was in vain. On the plus side, Suse has done great job selecting excellent fonts and some art works.Though Suse is quite suitable for DeskTop.
Most of the HP and compaq systems usually have problems with majority of the linux distros. With your configuration is should be possible to run professional. As Rajesh mentioned the quality of the CD may be a issue here. I have worked with 190MB machines and 9.1 Live CD boots well on them, and without any modifications one can use medium-resource hungry apps like openoffice, GIMP, mozilla. 256MB should work very well, also the speed of the CDROM will play a role here. If possible also try SuSE Professional 9.1 live CD, that does not load the nonessential servers. SuSE has the following products targetted for some specific purposes.
SLD - SuSE Linux Desktop, for corporate desktops. SLPro - SuSE linux professional, for you and me, this has all the possible apps in the market. SLPersonal - SuSE Linux personal - for you and me if we are not computer literate and we need a windows replacement for surfing the web, listening to music, chatting, a little multimedia. Basically a home user. SLES - SuSE linux enterprise server (very tested and very scalable). Highend commercial servers. Many wellknown clusters run on SLES in Japan, US and Europe.
There are a few more, but these are the most important ones, give it a fair try and let me know if you have any more problems with the same. Thanks.
Amish K. Munshi. Always Available, Everywhere.