On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:12:26PM +0600, Mustafa Qasim wrote: > Hello! > Can anyone tell me that how much resources F7 consumes for it CORE > OPERATIONS. Can a common guy who is not even a semi-geek nor an IT man > and has a Pentium II with 128 SDRAM at his home for normal home usage > afford having F7(X-Window) or later ones on his machine. > Is Fedora best for guys upgrading their systems every year or is it > also a solution for poor people having old systems? There are Linuxes and there are Linuxes. You need 250 MB to install Fedora as it stands now. The roll-your-own-CD tools should make it possible to build an installation CD that does not require so much memory, but if anyone has done it I've not heard of it. On the other tentacle, I just put xubuntu on a 133MHz Pentium machine with 67MB. I did a text installation from the alternatives CD. It took four hours. I then added just enough of X that I could run firestarter remotely on it. It is now back in service as my firewall. On another tentacle, for folks with older machines who simply want to use email, the web, and maybe an occasional bit of word processing, DSL (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) is an excellent live CD one can install to a hard drive. To get equivalent Windows resource requirements, you would have to go to W9x, and I wouldn't let the results anywhere near an Internet connection. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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