Am 22.06.2011 15:37, schrieb Darryl L. Pierce: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 02:21:07PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >>> But does Fedora 15 "require high end hardware"? No, it doesn't. >> >> It won't even install on a machine with 512Mb, so yes it requires high >> end hardware by many people's measurements. > > I _really_ don't consider having more than 512M on a machine to be "high > end hardware". The standard for YEARS now has been for systems to come > with at least a gig or more of memory. > > Memory requirements are based on the intended purpose of the > installation. And I'll wager that someone who's looking to use a GUI > desktop on their system is not installing onto a machine with only 512M > and hasn't been doing so for quite a while; i.e., F15 isn't the first > release to need more memory than that for a GUI. > > Quite frankly, I'd question the sanity of someone who actually was > installing a full blown Fedora installation on a system with only 512M. > ;) because you are only seeing you desktop the developers seems too and that is why "yum" is consuming soo much RAM that on a virtual machine with 512 MB RAM the kernel-OOM-killer is killing yum sometimes, and hey we are speaking abut a terminal-app there wents something TERRIBLE wrong in the linux world not only on fedora side, they all starting to braindead waste ressources - the result is that modenr hardware is not really fast as ten years ago if you looking at the perfomrance the user gets out of it
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