On Thursday 21 December 2006 17:45, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Dave Ihnat <dihnat <at> dminet.com> writes: > > with Windows ME or Windows XP Home ever have upgraded (and they usually > > find-- especially the former--that the hardware can't hack the upgrade.) > > This is not that big an issue with Fedora. The most memory-hungry part of > Fedora is actually the installer, and you can bypass that by using a > depsolver like yum or apt on a running system with lots of swap space for > your upgrades instead. The CPU is mostly irrelevant for the core OS. (Some > apps like OpenOffice.org 2 and Eclipse are another story. But there are > more lightweight alternatives, e.g. AbiWord or KWord instead of OO.o > Writer. And even here, RAM is more of a limiting factor than CPU power, the > main problem is HDD thrashing caused by swapping panic.) > > Case in point, I'm running FC6 on a 266 MHz laptop which originally shipped > with Window$ 98 (The first exemplaries sold even came with Window$ 95!), > with RAM upgraded from 32 MB to the maximum supported (160 MB). I had to > fight some interesting battles with Anaconda, so for FC5->FC6 I just used > apt-get dist-upgrade and that worked fine (unlike the horror stories from > some Ubuntu users). But once installed, KDE just works. I have a more > powerful desktop for everyday use, but when I need a laptop, the 266 MHz > one works fine. > You miss the point, Kevin. Of course you can upgrade on older systems - if you want to. I've done it myself. I have two boxes, though, that run FC4 and for several reasons I do not want to upgrade them. It's just 10 months since FC4 was installed on both of them. I don't need the latest and greatest on either of them, but I do want security updates, and I'm not going to get them. Frankly, Legacy was the biggest reason I had for coming to Fedora. I understand about the lack of manpower in volunteer situations, but I'm less than happy. If I have to install afresh to get a secure system I'll probably change to CentOS rather than install FC6 on those boxes. Anne
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