Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Dec 8 19:55:39 UTC 2003


adam at ausics.net (adam at ausics.net) said: 
> > 3) better definition of a truly bare-bones server install
> 
> I support this one.
> 
> Why must I waste min 64 megs ram on an old gateway box, I like the idea of
> able to bare bones install on 32 megs ram or less, i have a 486 gw box
> ran for years, no need to upgrade it for what it does, still runs a VERY
> ancient version of RH because it has 8 megs ram and nothing since rh6 will
> install, to put a modern OS on it i could put slackware, but why
> slackware, when RH should do this as it used to, a text install should
> use SFA as it doesnt need gui..

Note that Red Hat hasn't even shipped a kernel that supported that
box for multiple releases (since 7.3). I'm not sure that scaling
back the requirements that much is something that fits the model
of always moving forward with new technology.

Bill





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