--- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
