On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 23:38 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > 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. Same outfit here, and they also use Ubuntu, but it's nothing to do with system requirements, just broader hardware support through non-free drivers and the simple fact that it's the most popular desktop general-user distro. Ubuntu 12.04 cites 384MB minimum for a 32-bit install and 512MB minimum for a 64-bit install: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop#System_requirements so they're very close to us. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
