system requirements for Fedora 9

[max bianco]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at yahoo.com> 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