When will Fedora work again?

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Mar 8 23:20:49 UTC 2009


Antonio M wrote:
> 2009/3/8 Deependra Singh Shekhawat <deepsa at fedoraproject.org>:
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 2009/3/8 Deependra Singh Shekhawat <deepsa at fedoraproject.org>:
>>>>
>>>> Intel 845 sounds very oldish chipset. Must be upgraded to support latest
>>>> distributions.
>>>>
>>> oldish chipset??? do you mean that old hardware should not be
>>> supported by Fedora???
>> Yes.
> 
> and what is meant by old hardware?? two years, five years or what
> else??? where can I find the definition of old computer and the
> related guidelines for Fedora???
> I want to know as at the moment I am running rawhide on an old PII-400
> MHz with 256 Mb and a cirrus graphic card about ten years old: and I
> suppose that I am not the only one around...
> 

I can understand Fedora not performing will when running GNOME or KDE on 
such a system, but I would fully expect it to work, for some definitions 
of work.

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Cheers
John

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