On 11/10/2012 05:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 05:22 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 11/10/2012 01:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 00:52 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Adam Williamson wrote:
So, since Fedora has existed, Anaconda's memory requirements have increased
by at least an order of magnitude! How's that NOT "skyrocketing"?
You're being pretty absurd comparing 2003 requirements to 2012
requirements without allowing at all for hardware inflation.
You seem to be missing the increasing amount of aging netbooks, laptops
and tablets.
Also you seem to be ignoring the fact of Windows XP being about to be
discontinued, for which at least some users will be looking for a
substitute OS, when they realize Win 8's HW requirements are too
demanding for their HW or when they realize Win 8 doesn't meet their
personal needs.
Some of them certainly will consider switching to Linux, but will it be
Fedora? Provided this discussion, my guess is no.
Look, I like a good argument as much as anyone else, but this is
ludicrous. Are you just replying to me for the sake of scoring a point?
No. I feel Fedora is going down the drain, with the installer's demands
and Fedora's upgrade mechanisms being a major factor contributing to this.
Or are you seriously suggesting that a sensible direction for Fedora is
to consider the requirements of nine year old hardware and attempt to
adjust our software to match?
No.
I am pointing out that what you are calling "9 year old" hardware is not
unlike the hardware to be found on 4-2 year old netbooks/laptops/tablets
etc. and consider ignoring this hardware to be a mistake.
I am also pointing out, that there is a larger group of potential future
Linux users out there (Win XP users), to whom Fedora has not much to offer.
Is this really what you would like us to
do, or are you just compulsively contradicting whatever you can?
Neither. I am simply deeply convinced that one of Linux traditional
domains and key feature had been "not being as resource demanding" as
competing OSes and that loosing it "just because that's the way it is"
is a severe long term mistake.
Ralf
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