Re: system requirements for Fedora 9

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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote:
>  Dear all,
>
>  I know that the release notes have not come out, but I
>  want to find out what are the bare minimum
>  requirements to get Fedora 9 installed onto a
>  computer.
>
>  I have seen Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS (Hardy Heron) being
>  released and they have a page with the system
>  requirements:
>
>  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
>
>  I looked for the Fedora equivalent page but the
>  closest I have found is
>
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific
>
>  but it only specifies for installation purposes.  I
>  would like to know the requirements because several of
>  my friends have become interested in linux and I told
>  them to install Fedora, one already installed *buntu
>  and he is loving it.
>
>  What are the requirements for KDE?
>
>  for Gnome?
>
>  XFce?
>
>  other DE if they also count?
>
>  Would Fedora 9 work ok with a machine with the
>  following specs
>
>  cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
>  processor       : 0
>  vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>  cpu family      : 6
>  model           : 7
>  model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
>  stepping        : 3
>  cpu MHz         : 451.017
>  cache size      : 512 KB
>  fdiv_bug        : no
>  hlt_bug         : no
>  f00f_bug        : no
>  coma_bug        : no
>  fpu             : yes
>  fpu_exception   : yes
>  cpuid level     : 2
>  wp              : yes
>  flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8
>  sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
>  bogomips        : 903.08
>  clflush size    : 32
>
>  cat /proc/meminfo
>
>  MemTotal:       510372 kB
>  MemFree:         20152 kB
>  Buffers:         47824 kB
>  Cached:         276884 kB
>  SwapCached:          4 kB
>  Active:         203556 kB
>  Inactive:       241360 kB
>  HighTotal:           0 kB
>  HighFree:            0 kB
>  LowTotal:       510372 kB
>  LowFree:         20152 kB
>  SwapTotal:     1052248 kB
>  SwapFree:      1052244 kB
>  Dirty:               0 kB
>  Writeback:           0 kB
>  AnonPages:      120204 kB
>  Mapped:          46632 kB
>  Slab:            25136 kB
>  SReclaimable:    15952 kB
>  SUnreclaim:       9184 kB
>  PageTables:       1368 kB
>  NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
>  Bounce:              0 kB
>  CommitLimit:   1307432 kB
>  Committed_AS:   257348 kB
>  VmallocTotal:   507896 kB
>  VmallocUsed:     13172 kB
>  VmallocChunk:   494600 kB
>
>  would a machine like this one run Fedora 9 ok or is
>  better to try something like Xubuntu?
>
>  I would like your recommendations for a friend.
>
>  Thanks in Advance,
>
>  Antonio
>  
I installed the F9 Alpha on a p3 w 512 RAM and a 12 gb hdd, GNOME ran
acceptably. Old dell optiplex.


Max