On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > Ralf Here in Portland, Oregon, "obsolete" computers end up at a recycling / reuse outfit called FreeGeek. They do in fact rebuild them with Linux, and IIRC it's Ubuntu. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench: http://znmeb.github.com/Computational-Journalism-Publishers-Workbench/ How the Hell can the lion sleep with all those people singing "A weem oh way!" at the top of their lungs? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
