fc5 goals

[Paul A Houle]

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:

>In my experience, DVD burners and readers are already much
>more common than plain CD recorders and readers.  Computers
>with no DVD readers are usually too old and slow to run a
>full featured Linux desktop comfortably, and if the current
>trend of adding features and complexity continues, it will
>become more and more true over time.
>  
>
    Hardly true.

    My Linux desktop at work is a 350 MhZ Pentium II -- an old IBM box 
that could probably survive a few bullets or being thrown down the 
stairs.  It's not an exciting machine,  but it ~never~ screws up.  I 
could get a newer Dell if I asked,  but the Dells have bad IDE 
controllers,  driver problems,  etc.

    I maxxed out the RAM to 388 MB and it runs RHEL 4 like a champ.  
There are probably some GUI apps that will floor it,  but nautilus is 
fine and I can have 50 xterms open,  a subversion server,  a daemon that 
collects SNMP data from 30+ hosts,  and it's just fine.