On Wednesday 08 February 2006 12:56pm, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On 2/8/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How can I help with a lowly 500 MHz machine I have acquired? It wasn't > > what I was expecting originally, but that's because my original plans > > fell through. > > As long as it has enough RAM (check the release notes) and some free > disk space, and as long as you have a little patience, it should be > fine for testing. > > I'm coming back to Fedora Core testing after a long break (for various > reasons)... with a 350MHz machine. ^_^ I think having some slow machines in the mix is good. We don't want to be building a distribution that suddenly only runs "tolerably" on "the last 20% of the speed curve" hardware. Then again, those with "only" slow machines need to be cautious of becoming "numb" about performance. After a while, you get used to the speed of your machine (screaming fast, painfully slow or anywhere in between) and it can become very easy to overlook the changes in performance. I think the best defense against that is awareness + hard numbers (benchmark). "time" is your friend :) . It turns fuzzy time into something that we can all talk about. So, to those with "slow" boxes; happy testing. P.S. I don't speak for the Fedora Project :) . -- Lamont R. Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: F98C E31A 5C4C 834A BCAB 8CB3 F980 6C97 DC0D D409
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