During the last weekend, I upgraded my main desktop to the latest and greatest 11.2 release of openSUSE. Finally, KDE4 is fully usable as an everyday desktop and I was able to come back from the GNOME world to the KDE. AMD2800 processor, 1 GB RAM and Geforce 7600 seem to be more than enough for being able to comfortably use this system. I would not, however, suggest anyone to install the distro on an old computer, like these 1 GHz desktop systems I currently use in my second location.
Anyway, there are some new distribution releases even for us who want to keep the old hardware still in productive use.
ZevenOS is a distro that I have never actually used but it is certainly worth considering when I decide to have some fun with distrohopping. The distro is based on Ubuntu 9.10.
The minimal hardware requirements for the distro are given as follows:
- 192 MB RAM
- 3 GB free space on the hard drive
- 16 MB graphics board, mouse, keyboard and screen device.
Of course, these requirements are probably too high for some of my readers. If you are one of them, I suggest you to help KDulcimer by testing the latest alpha release of TinyMe. TinyMe is a Unity-based distribution and it is specifically targeted at older computers and people who want a very light desktop environment. Read the
release notes for more information about the alpha release!
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Just a heads up–
ZevenOS is basically just Ubuntu with some BeOS-looking skins. For a full, free/libre recreation that essentially is Be, not just a kludged Linux derivation with eye candy thrown on top, check out haiku-os.org (not to dis Zeven).
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