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Re: [News] [Linux] The Inevitability of Desktop Linux

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Linux] The Inevitability of Desktop Linux
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 17:09:06 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> __/ [ John Locke ] on Monday 07 May 2007 16:27 \__

>> Well....old too a certain point. I've tried installing Suse, Fedora,
>> etc. on old super socket 7 (AMD 500 MHz, Cyrix 333MHz) systems
>> but its simply not enough CPU. Too sluggish. I would set the minimum
>> hardware requirements at 1 GHz and 512 Meg of memory.
> 
> Suse and Fedora (present versions) are not suitable distros for that hardware

[root@sky ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo | head -n8
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : VIA Samuel 2
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 533.362
cache size      : 64 KB

[root@sky ~]# cat /proc/meminfo | head -n1
MemTotal:       507340 kB

I'll be upgrading the whole Network to F7 on the day of release.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
 17:07:32 up 25 days, 14:39,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 0.09, 0.11

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