Suse in a netbook,is that really valid?

[Ikaar]

Firstly I should say that I'm really bad at English (I am a French student of 16 years), I took you to forgive me then
I have a small question to ask yourself:

OpenSUSE's worth it to be installed on a netbook?

(what little question.....)

Thank you for your understanding and see you soon.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

OpenSUSE will be a bit heavy for Netbook. I have never tried OpenSUSE on Netbook but Ubuntu Netbook Remix is best for Netbooks in my opinion.

[reed9]

Depends somewhat on the netbook specs.

I don't see why Ubuntu Netbook Remix would be any lighter than OpenSuse. UNR is based on GNOME with a different interface, and to my knowledge isn't any lighter than another GNOME distro. It still uses heavy weight apps like openoffice, Evolution, Firefix, etc. KDE4 is a little more resource heavy, but each release has been improving performance and the next KDE4 release will include a netbook interface.

KDE is also quite large, so if you're using a small SSD, 4 GB or less, then KDE will take up most or all the space, and you might want to look at other options. GNOME is also large, but not as large.

(KDE and GNOME are desktop environments, which can be used in pretty much any distro.)

KDE's new Plasma netbook interface shines in small places

Ubuntu Netbook Remix | Canonical

OpenSuse is also working on a Moblin project for netbooks.
Moblin - openSUSE

[Ikaar]

OpenSuse is also working on a Moblin project for netbooks.
Moblin - openSUSE[/url]

This response to meet my expectations, I will follow this project closely thank you for your reply. =)

[rokytnji]

Sure seems feasible according to this thread here

[oz]

OpenSUSE's worth it to be installed on a netbook?

Welcome to the forums!

OpenSuse is a fantastic distribution that might suit you if it's not too much for your hardware. You can check over the hardware requirements here:

http://www.novell.com/products/opensuse/sysreqs.html

Let us know what you go with and how it works out for you.

[devils casper]

I don't see why Ubuntu Netbook Remix would be any lighter than OpenSuse. UNR is based on GNOME with a different interface, and to my knowledge isn't any lighter than another GNOME distro. It still uses heavy weight apps like openoffice, Evolution, Firefix, etc. KDE4 is a little more resource heavy, but each release has been improving performance and the next KDE4 release will include a netbook interface.

I am using Ubuntu Netbook Remix in my Netbook and it is definitely lighter than regular Gnome. I would suggest you to check Minimum hardware requirements at Ubuntu Netbook Remix website.

[reed9]

I am using Ubuntu Netbook Remix in my Netbook and it is definitely lighter than regular Gnome. I would suggest you to check Minimum hardware requirements at Ubuntu Netbook Remix website.

UNR

Minimum hardware requirements:

* Processor: Intel® Atom™ processor
* RAM: 512 MB
* Storage: 4 GB Flash disk (SSD) or hard disk

Regular Ubuntu

Recommended minimum requirements

Ubuntu should run reasonably well on a computer with the following minimum hardware specification. However, features such as visual effects may not run smoothly.

* 700 MHz x86 processor
* 384 MB of system memory (RAM)
* 8 GB of disk space
* Graphics card capable of 1024x768 resolution

Perhaps UNR is optimized or Atom processors, hence the perceived performance boost? I can't find any information suggesting they use a custom kernel or do any optimizations. The only info I can find indicates it's just Ubuntu with some extra packages thrown on top to change the desktop around. With the desktop switcher, you can flip between the UNR interface and the normal GNOME interface.

[devils casper]

Perhaps UNR is optimized or Atom processors, hence the perceived performance boost?

Yes. Thats why I suggested UNR. I have tested regular Ubuntu in Netbook and performance was not satisfactory. You can make it work with some tinkering though. UNR works much better in Netbook without tinkering or extra efforts.

[daark.child]

There are some netbooks out there shipping with the Moblin version of openSUSE, so I guess openSUSE is a viable option on netbooks depending on the specs.