Re: [Hampshire] Time for a new distribution

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Author: m.nuttall
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To: hantslug, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Time for a new distribution
Quoting David Rozzell <hantslug@???>:

> On Sunday 23 December 2007, m.nuttall@??? wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have opensuse 10.2 installed on my PC which has an athlon 3000
> > mobile,Nvidia geforce 6600GT gfx card and 2gig of ram. Suse is running a
> > little
> > unresponsive/slow so i was thinking of changing to a different flavour of
> > linux but i like YAST alot so if theres an equivalent it might be
> > interesting.
>
> Hi
>
> No one else has mentioned it so I will, have you thought of trying Opensuse
> 10.3? I've just moved from 10.0 to 10.3 on a 1.8GHz P4 machine with 512MB ram
>
> and noticed a significant improvement in speed and responsiveness in all
> areas.


thats interesting.

Did you run 9.3 suse btw?
That was pretty responsive although not as much as say win2k.

> I also hear from a friend who has upgraded this week from 10.1 to
> 10.3, that he has also noticed a significant improvement in the 64bit
> version.


Only have the 32bit cpu here.

> As you are used to the way opensuse works it may be worth having a look at.


Yes it maybe worth thinking about that.
thanks

Martin N

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