Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

[Chris Murphy]

On Jun 2, 2014, at 4:25 PM, "Powell, Michael" <Michael_Powell at mentor.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-05-31 at 16:36 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>>  I would have installed Fedora, but they say the requirements are at
>> least 4GB RAM.
> 
> 2GB should be possible...
> 
> From the official Fedora 20 release notes
> <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Welcome_to_Fedora_.html#hardware_overview>:
> 
> Minimum System Configuration
> 
> 1GHz or faster processor
> 1GB System Memory
> 10GB unallocated drive space

Yes it will install and work. With a web browser it's a bit tight, and may end up swapping to disk. Neverthless, impressive, right now for me on OS X the kernel is taking up 700MB alone; and "wired" memory is 1.34GB. So yeah… oinkster.


Chris Murphy