[Cialug] SuSe

Chris Hilton chris129 at cs.iastate.edu
Tue Oct 11 09:06:26 CDT 2005


Your machines should run it fine.  You might find yourself wanting some more 
RAM, but it should run it about as well as it runs anything else.

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 08:54 am, David Stout wrote:
> It is a Celeron chip (not sure on the spelling) is that supported?
>
> Josh More <morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:          What was stated
> below is incorrect.
>
> The latest version of SUSE is 10.  The latest retail version is also 10,
> but it has not hit stores yet.  It is, however, downloadable as an "eval
> DVD iso".  There is no difference between the evan DVD and the commercial
> DVD other than the eval does not come with phone support.
>
> The confusion over openSUSE versus SUSE is that SUSE has a handful of
> closed-source packages in it.  The openSUSE has those packages removed. 
> Both are SUSE, both are SUSE 10.
>
> Regarding the 600MHz question, it depends on the architecture of your
> processor. Intel or AMD should be fine.  If you are trying a K6, Cyrix, etc
> you *may* have problems. Officially, SUSE supports:
>
> # Intel Pentium 1-4
> # AMD Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP, Sempron
> # AMD Opteron, Athlon 64. Sempron 64, Turion 64
> # Intel Xeon, Xeon MP, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
> # G5 / G4 / G3
> # 604 / 603 / 601
> # IBM RS/6000
> # IBM pSeries (except the models with RS64 cpu)
> # IBM iSeries
>
> So if you have anything else, you may have issues.

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