Fedora HW requirements

[Dan Smith]

It's changed. I tried to install FC 7 or 8 on a machine running FC6
once and found I could not do it. It is an issue since many folks like
to use the same distro on all machines and keep older machines around
as print servers, bastion hosts, data servers and such. I've got a
couple ancient machines I'm rehabbing that I'll have to use a
non-Fedora distro on because there's no way to lighten the kernel
without a good bit of hand pruning to get it to run on the 256 megs of
ram those two machines have.


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Adam Pribyl <pribyl at lowlevel.cz> wrote:
> I am just bit surprised that Fedora hardware requirements remain same thru
> release notes from Fedora Core 2 (almost 5 years) ut to Fedora 10.
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/What_is_New_for_Installation_and_Live_Images.html#x86_specifics_for_Fedora
>
> I think we should consider to review this, as this is really getting
> outdated. I know that Fedora can run on P200MHz with 64MB RAM, but it's not
> usefull for work, and I would really not consider something like PII400MHz
> with 256MB of RAM as recommended hardware. I personaly start to feel
> slowness on PIII800MHz with 512MB of RAM with default Gnome, KDE4 is not
> possible use on this HW due to unresponsive GUI. I know this is much about
> the feeling, but recommended I would consider (looking into smolt results)
> something around 2GHz CPU and 1GB of RAM. For 64bit I think there should be
> mentioned that you need to have a CPU with either AMD64 or EM64T technology,
> the RAM and gigahertz may remain the same..
>
> Thanks for attention
>
> Adam Pribyl
>
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