On Thursday 21 August 2008, kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> I have about 2 weeks before my bill gates white trooper / son comes back
> home. Before he comes back I want to have a killer suse laptop for the
> wife, da missus and I just decided that she does not need a desktop, a
> laptop with a choice between land line and wifi would be perfectly
> acceptable! the problem is that the laptop is an aged hp job, the model
> is an hp pavilion, ze1000 series, with an 80gb hard drive, 512mb ram and
> an amd xp-1500+ cpu. presently, the laptop is a dual boot setup, 32 bit
> suse 10.3 is the default, windoze xp is the other choice in the grub
> menu.  all that will be wiped out for the *one* os to be freshly
> installed. Currently, the standard 10.3 suse feels *a lot more sluggish*
> on the laptop than the xp and no, it is not beagle, the dreaded dog was
> never allowed in the system at install! so, i am asking for help in
> installing a fast suse system. should I go to 11.0? should i try
> something like knoppyx? if i still do suse, what can i keep out of the
> installation in order to gain speed? should i abandon kde and try
> somethinglike xfce?
> expected useage would be email, web browsing, book writing(oo), vlc /
> mplayer / dvd playing multimedia, perhaps some pdf file creation.
> any ideas will be welcome!
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Hello Kanenas,

I think openSUSE 11.0 combined with KDE 3.5.9 will do, it is much faster.

Is the 512MB ram the max that the HP Pavilion can have. A total of 1 GB 
should be plenty for the intended use

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Regards,

	Frans Leerink	
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