On 08/18/2017 07:55 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
My guess is yeah, it'll need more memory--regardless of what "modern"
OS you manage to install on it. I think even Windows 10 has a minimum of
1GB for a 32-bit environment and 16GB of disk. Fun, fun, fun!
Well, installing Fedora 26 on x86ers with less than 1GB RAM definitely
is possible. Installation may require some tricks (e.g. manual
partitioning to add swap), but it definitely is possible
At least, I have Fedora running on a PIII w/ 512 MB RAM:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
...
# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 505976 kB
MemFree: 201332 kB
MemAvailable: 388100 kB
...
# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 26 (Twenty Six)
However, due to the tight RAM constraints, using a DE on it requires a
certain amount of "patience". With xfce, the desktop performance is OK
for "rare" and "occasional", "light" use (email, browsing, ...), but not
for much more - Gnome and KDE are beyond limits ;)
Finally, I do not recommend to use Fedora on x86ers anymore, because of
Redhat and Fedora's Leaders politics against 32bit. I am considering to
switch to Mageia or Debian.
Ralf
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