Tim: >> Just so you know, you can use a DVD on a system with a 500 MHz CPU, I do >> it. I manage burning error-free DVDs quite nicely on a 500 MHz Celeron >> with around only 380 megs of RAM, on FC4. The minimum PC specs you see >> on DVD packaging generally is regards to what you'll need to run Windows >> and the DVD burning software that they provide with the burner. Linux >> doesn't have the same overheads (inefficiencies) that Windows has. Mike McCarty: > Umm? Windows XP runs my benchmark programs faster than Fedora does. > Please don't spread FUD. There are good reasons for some people > to run Linux rather than Windows, but "Windows is more inefficient" > is not one of them. I have little respect for "benchmark programs". My practical experience says otherwise. Never mind burning, or playing DVDs, XP on a 500 MHz Celeron with only 380 megs of RAM is painful, in itself. What I said, stands. The minimum specs stated on DVD burner packaging is what they've worked out you need to run Windows OS and DVD software at the same time, which *are* in excess of what I need to do the same on Linux. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
