So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> > Rahul,
> > 
> > What are the system requirements for the Xfce
> Desktop
> > on Fedora?
> > 
> > It is never too late to reconsider.  Many users
> have
> > two or more OS's on their machines.  There are
> many
> > people that want to know the requirements at least
> the
> > minimun to run XFce on Fedora.
> 
> I haven't tried it anything below a P2 with 256 MB
> RAM. It will possibly 
> run but be painfully slow on anything below that esp
> when run as a live cd.
> 
> Rahul
> 
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The reason I ask is because a friend wants to try out
linux on an old p3 with the following specs

cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 451.017
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8
sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
bogomips        : 903.08
clflush size    : 32

cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal:       510372 kB
MemFree:         18988 kB
Buffers:         36308 kB
Cached:         277104 kB
SwapCached:       4432 kB
Active:         233128 kB
Inactive:       207432 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       510372 kB
LowFree:         18988 kB
SwapTotal:     1052248 kB
SwapFree:      1045832 kB
Dirty:               0 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:      122716 kB
Mapped:          48004 kB
Slab:            28060 kB
SReclaimable:    16744 kB
SUnreclaim:      11316 kB
PageTables:       1328 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   1307432 kB
Committed_AS:   272380 kB
VmallocTotal:   507896 kB
VmallocUsed:     14804 kB
VmallocChunk:   493028 kB

Another friend at worked has recommended Xubuntu on
that machine, and I told him to hold off till Fedora 9
is released and that I would install it for him, but
if he wants xubuntu, then I lost my battle.  If he
goes for Xubuntu, I'll try to convince him to dual
boot.  See how that goes :)

Regards,

Antonio 


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