My machine!!

[Jim Higson]

On Monday 09 August 2004 00:44, Clifford Snow wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 16:29, Robert Morrison wrote:
> > Greetings everyone,
> >
> > I am a long time fed up Windows user. I have run Linux on my computer
> > before, but at that time I wasn't very computer savvy (not that I'm very
> > computer savvy now either way) and didn't spend much time getting to
> > learn it. My machine is a Compaq Presario 5190, and I purchased the
> > Official Fedora Companion book, which came with the Fedora Core
> > Publisher's Edition CD ROM. I got through most of the installation with
> > no problem until after I set my root password I get a prompt that says
> > "Your machine is not supported by this version of Fedora". Three years
> > ago this computer was running Red Hat Linux 5.2... so what's the deal
> > with it not bieng able to run Fedora? Is there any chance in hell that  I
> > might be able to get this to run, or is there a version of Fedora out
> > there that my computer will run? I don't want to run Window's 2000 on my
> > computer anymore becuase I'm tired of suffering.
>
> From the specs on a generic Compaq Presario 5190 it shows 128mb of
> memory.  FC2 requires a bare minimum of 192mb to run graphics and a
> 400Mhz or better processor.  Check out the release notes for FC2, you
> may be able to upgrade your machine to run Fedora.  The release notes
> can be found at:
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/
>os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html

128megs sounds resonable to me.  Especially if you run xfce. (http://xfce.org)
Maybe you should have a look at the rule project
(http://www.rule-project.org/)