On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear all, > > I know that the release notes have not come out, but I > want to find out what are the bare minimum > requirements to get Fedora 9 installed onto a > computer. > > I have seen Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS (Hardy Heron) being > released and they have a page with the system > requirements: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements > > I looked for the Fedora equivalent page but the > closest I have found is > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific > > but it only specifies for installation purposes. I > would like to know the requirements because several of > my friends have become interested in linux and I told > them to install Fedora, one already installed *buntu > and he is loving it. > > What are the requirements for KDE? > > for Gnome? > > XFce? > > other DE if they also count? > > Would Fedora 9 work ok with a machine 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: 20152 kB > Buffers: 47824 kB > Cached: 276884 kB > SwapCached: 4 kB > Active: 203556 kB > Inactive: 241360 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 510372 kB > LowFree: 20152 kB > SwapTotal: 1052248 kB > SwapFree: 1052244 kB > Dirty: 0 kB > Writeback: 0 kB > AnonPages: 120204 kB > Mapped: 46632 kB > Slab: 25136 kB > SReclaimable: 15952 kB > SUnreclaim: 9184 kB > PageTables: 1368 kB > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB > Bounce: 0 kB > CommitLimit: 1307432 kB > Committed_AS: 257348 kB > VmallocTotal: 507896 kB > VmallocUsed: 13172 kB > VmallocChunk: 494600 kB > > would a machine like this one run Fedora 9 ok or is > better to try something like Xubuntu? > > I would like your recommendations for a friend. > > Thanks in Advance, > > Antonio > I installed the F9 Alpha on a p3 w 512 RAM and a 12 gb hdd, GNOME ran acceptably. Old dell optiplex. Max -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
