After a few hours of doing a net-install of openSUSE 13.1 Xfce on the cluster node, I was met with a broken power-saved screen when I came back; I was able to get to command-line to give the node a proper reboot and finally got into Xfce afterwards.
Speed-wise, it didn't seem much different than Debian Xfce live; the only real difference being the included applications and panel applets - both of which made Xfce feel different in openSUSE. Thinking about it though, since I'm so used to using Xfce with Debian, it's not an experience that's easily transferable to other systems because my usage of it isn't very heavy compared with GNOME 3; GNOME 3 is a little more transferable - since I've used it for quite some time now - but when I use it on a different system (Ubuntu or Debian), I can feel a bit of a difference, but it doesn't bother me as much as Xfce.
I'll have to see if I can get the other panel applets installed (I really like the cpu/mem/swap applet), and if not, I'll do an install of Debian Xfce instead.
I also suspended the node as a test, finding out that it only responded to the power button to bring it back and that the integrated graphics didn't like the suspend (the cursor was either glitched or missing, and the picture was either moving or stable based on the cursor's position). If I do find a use for the node before resuming the cluster project, I'll have to be weary on the graphics.
I tested openSUSE 13.2 on Ziggy like I said I would (I skipped the VAIO, as I remembered it doesn't have any optical drives), but during my sleeping hours, I forgot what I was supposed to test specifically.
I poked around a bit, and 13.2 behaved no different on Ziggy than on the Dell (though probably slightly slower), so there isn't really much to say besides reiterating that it works to breathe new life into any old single-core, multi-threaded CPU system.
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