I just purchased a PII/333 mhz 128 MB RAM machine from a friend for $50 to use as a MP3 player machine connected to my stereo. I downloaded the SUSE 9.3 distro to install. Will this hardware be supported by SUSE 9.3?

Seems like from what I have read here about SUSE 9.3 it is pretty good at recognizing most hardware, so I shouldn't have too many problems. But I also read that it does not really come with an MP3 player. Are there any players I can download from somewhere.


CB

Suse ships with mp3 players but they are just disabled. You can enable all multimedia capabilities by running YOU (Suse's online update tool) and selecting the multimedia packs that are available as patches.

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Yes--the question is whether or not the hardware will support *SuSE*

I think you're misunderstanding something; that statement (probably) has do with supporting all the bells, whistles and gong one might plug into one's computer (say, scanners, winmodems, usb camera phones, whatever)--whereas what I think your question is, is "is this machine powerful enough to run SuSE".

I wouldn't know, but try--GNU/Linux is famous for being runnable on old hardware. Running X w. GNOME or KDE might be a little heavy on your box; consider using a lightweight wm (RP springs to mind), or abandoning X altogether.

That, of course, requires a console mp3 player; I'm successfully using `playsound', but there's also `moc'. If you're not limiting yourself to (main / DFSG-)free software, you can also try mplayer.

Also, `playsound' supports mod

hth --Jonas

I did have an additional question..Will this PII/333/128 RAM machine be OK for SUSE 9.3? Does it need a more powerful machine?

Thanks jonas...I posted prev reply before seeing your message. Thanks.

You're welcome.

Hi i ran suse 9.1 one on a 450MHz and 128MB of ram. It will run but it will just be a bit slow because of the 128 RAM {and processor} .This is anouth to run suse but don't forget this is the bear minimum. I used KDE on my machine. When on a slow machine don't run openoffice as it takes the life out of my old machine. [ especial when you run it by accident!]

I'm running 9.3 on a 667Mhz/384 MB RAM, and programs launch very slowly for me, especially when I compare it to Ubuntu, which I run on the same machine on a different partition. However, it does run perfectly, if slowly. 9.2 was a bit faster for me, but the difference in speed between the two versions is pretty insignificant.

When I was running Suse 9.1 on 256MB RAM is was not speedy.
When I tried running a minimal install Suse on 64MB of RAM (attempted replacing Debian Woody) it was a dog.
If you can handle either text mode or one of the minimal window managers like Blackbox or ICE give Suse a try and see what you think. Slack or Debian would run faster but maybe harder to configure.