i want to run opensuse 13.2 with Gnome desktop. what's the minimum (i repeat, Minimum) processor and ram requirements for following tasks to be performed smoothly (i repeat SMOOTHLY):

1. surfing on the Internet with 4 or 6 tabs opened in Mozilla (i.e: facebook, various online judges).

2.coding on Codeblocks or Sublime.

3. playing music at background.

(n.b: generally, i will be coding on Codeblocks with one or two tabs opened in Browser for most of the times)


another question: is "Celeron Quad Core N2940, 2.16GHz processor & 2GB ram" laptop is well enough for doing the above tasks Smoothly

Thank You.

smoothly and minimum are not the same. I would add more ram, 4GB or even more, 8 GB

Going by this page:
https://en.opensuse.org/Hardware_requirements
which is for Leap 42.1 which is even heavier, I would say your processor should be fine, or perhaps a little bit slow, although it soundly trounces the recommended processor, and I would recommend 4GB of RAM if you can. 8GB is unnecessary.

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i meant, what it takes at least to run it smoothly.

4gb! i will just do some light browsing, and very basic type of programming. no game, no multimedia or document editing. so will 2gb do the work?

thanks once again

gnome eats a lot of ram itself, I do not know Codeblocks, but it looks like a heavy ide, so it will take a lot too (not to speak about Mozilla). As a minimum 2 GB would be (almost?) enough, but for a smooth work I suggest you to use more (4 GB). Adding even more RAM (like 8 or 16 GB) will/may allow to use ramdisk (for /tmp) which can speed up compiling and can make gnome more responsive. Probably you can buy additional RAM later if your initial size was not really suitable.

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The last time I tried Gnome, with Ubuntu, the 32-bit version idled at 460 MB. With KDE, Mageia suggest a minimum of 1.5 GB and Calculate recommend 2 GB. On that basis, I'd suggest that 2 GB should do. Try it and see: there's no sense in buying extra memory if you don't need it.

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thanks for your feedback

but what about the processor? will Celeron Quad Core N2940, 2.16GHz do the job well enough?

It won't be a Ferrari but it should run OK...

"ok" sounds fine to me

thanks a lot

That depends only on the load. I would say your desktop will work with that CPU. I have a Dell laptop with intel core i3 (2 cores only) and works perfectly.

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