Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> In my experience, Fedora developers (and probably other developers too) >> never actually test their minimal requirements. > > Can you elaborate on that experience? Well, it is only of historical interest, but I installed FC-5 on two C1VF PictureBooks with 128MB RAM, when it said 256MB was required. And I installed FC-6 on an Asus PIII desktop with 256MB RAM, when it said more was required, IIRC. I'm going to try upgrading to F-7 on this machine shortly, so I'll find out if that works. (The KDE F-7 Live CD worked fine on 6 different computers I tried it on.) > I've frequently found that a distribution works perfectly well >> on a system below the stated minimal requirements. > > The "minimal" requirements are for the default set of packages. Of > course if you install fluxbox or something you can get away with far > less RAM. I usually choose a custom install with almost nothing chosen, if in doubt. Then I do a yum update. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
