Fedora HW requirements

[Timothy Murphy]

On Tuesday 25 November 2008 22:13:52 Adam Pribyl wrote:

> 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.

To my mind, you are confusing two entirely separate parameters.

The CPU speed is really irrelevant to this discussion.
Obviously a machine with lower CPU speed will run more slowly,
but anyone with such a machine will know that already,
and does not really need advice on the subject.
A slow machine is perfectly adequate for many purposes,
eg as a printer or even file server.

The amount of RAM, on the other hand, is relevant,
because swapping is an order of magnitude slower.