How can I check if my laptop will support Fedora 20 or Fedora 21 installation?

[Darlene Wallach]

My name is Darlene Wallach

I have Fedora 13 installed on my laptop and want to install at least
Fedora 20. How can I check that my laptop will support installation of
Fedora 20?

My laptop is LinuxCertified LC220SN

$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        2057164 kB
MemFree:          104592 kB
Buffers:           78116 kB
Cached:           571256 kB
SwapCached:           28 kB
Active:          1075748 kB
Inactive:         726364 kB
Active(anon):     761576 kB
Inactive(anon):   403060 kB
Active(file):     314172 kB
Inactive(file):   323304 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:       1184968 kB
HighFree:          12816 kB
LowTotal:         872196 kB
LowFree:           91776 kB
SwapTotal:       2096476 kB
SwapFree:        2096264 kB
Dirty:               124 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:       1152756 kB
Mapped:           127552 kB
Shmem:             11888 kB
Slab:              81980 kB
SReclaimable:      66180 kB
SUnreclaim:        15800 kB
KernelStack:        3728 kB
PageTables:        20804 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:     3125056 kB
Committed_AS:    3358328 kB
VmallocTotal:     122880 kB
VmallocUsed:       60088 kB
VmallocChunk:      34812 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
DirectMap4k:       45048 kB
DirectMap2M:      862208 kB

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 23
model name    : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU       T4300  @ 2.10GHz
stepping    : 10
cpu MHz        : 1200.000
cache size    : 1024 KB
physical id    : 0
siblings    : 2
core id        : 0
cpu cores    : 2
apicid        : 0
initial apicid    : 0
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug        : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 13
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx
lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor
ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm xsave lahf_lm
bogomips    : 4188.80
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor    : 1
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 23
model name    : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU       T4300  @ 2.10GHz
stepping    : 10
cpu MHz        : 1200.000
cache size    : 1024 KB
physical id    : 0
siblings    : 2
core id        : 1
cpu cores    : 2
apicid        : 1
initial apicid    : 1
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug        : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 13
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx
lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor
ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm xsave lahf_lm
bogomips    : 4189.66
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/sect-Relea...

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Release_Notes/sect-Relea...

What other information should I get?

Thank you

Darlene Wallach
408.294.5681

[Joe Zeff]

On 02/16/2015 02:49 PM, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/sect-Relea...
>
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Release_Notes/sect-Relea...
>
> What other information should I get?

The information above should tell you everything you'll need.

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/17/15 06:49, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> What other information should I get?

Rather than trying to figure it out from the specs, it should be quicker and more definitive if you simply boot the LiveCD for your chosen desktop and see if it performs well.

At least that is what I would do.....

[Joachim Backes]

On 02/17/2015 12:02 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/17/15 06:49, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> > What other information should I get?
>
> Rather than trying to figure it out from the specs, it should be quicker and more definitive if you simply boot the LiveCD for your chosen desktop and see if it performs well.
>
> At least that is what I would do.....

Hi Darlene,

I'm running F21 on a Siemens Fujitsu Amilo notebook, ~8 years old, with

512 MB mem, 75GB HD, Intel Pentium R (1.6 GHz), xfce desktop.

Slow, but runs.

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

[Gary Stainburn]

On Monday 16 February 2015 23:02:19 Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/17/15 06:49, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> > What other information should I get?
>
> Rather than trying to figure it out from the specs, it should be quicker
> and more definitive if you simply boot the LiveCD for your chosen desktop
> and see if it performs well.
>
> At least that is what I would do.....

I've found that the LiveDVD doesn't give a full picture but is a start.  If it 
works with that then you're laughing. However, if it doesn't work with the 
LiveDVD you could still find it works perfectly fine with a normal HDD 
install.  The Live image is a bit restricted on the hardware it can support.

Beg, borrow or scrounge a spare HDD and install onto that to see how it goes.  
If it's rubbish, just put your old HDD back in