On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 22:56 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:01:14PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Because that's significantly less of our userbase. I'd love to have > > harder numbers, but we're still talking about a set of CPUs that > > (outside of corner cases like the Geode and C3) ceased production > > anywhere from 4 (Athlon) to 6 (P3) to 10 (P2) years ago. > > production, but not support. People buying these did expect software > to exist and run on them for more than 4+ years. > > My little old Latitude C400 works great as a relatively low power > firewall/router/printserver/torrent seed/bastion host. I've got one of those too, and it's certainly not usable enough for *desktop* work. Just a data point. Firefox makes it cry. Whether that's due to small caches, lack of memory (mine has 512MB), or the i830 video driver still having major acceleration issues, I don't know. Can't say anything about it's usage as a headless machine though. Dan > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 11 > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1200MHz > stepping : 1 > cpu MHz : 798.000 > 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 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up > bogomips : 1594.67 > clflush size : 32 > power management: > > BIOS Information > Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation > Release Date: 03/01/2004 > > with a BIOS a little over 5 years old. Is it long in the tooth? sure. Is it still very functional? you bet. > > I wouldn't go so far as to require sse2 in such a move. > > -- > Matt Domsch > Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO > linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
