I put SuSE 9.1 on my backup notebook yesterday. Here's what the specs are:

GATEWAY SOLO 5100XL NOTEBOOK COMPUTER
- Chips & Technologies graphics adapter - 2 MB
- 5 GB Hard Disk Drive
- 3.5" FD (does not write for some reason...)
- XGA display
- Touchpad
- 80 MB of RAM

I need to be able to use OpenOffice.org and a thumbdrive (that's why I chose SuSE 9.1). Some festive wallpaper would be nice too, as would KDE. I do not need sound, though the sound card has not worked for about three months anyway.

I also need to be able to sync my Tungsten T|5 via USB.

To be brief, I need to know if there is anything I can do to streamline the system so that it runs faster. I know in Windows there are drivers that one can disable, and on the Mac you can turn off extensions. What is the linux equivalent? What is recommended in terms of memory and processor hogs that I can disable?

I need to use this thing at school, so suspend/resume is also a must.

Thanks,
pck

Closing, duplicate post