On Monday 10 of May 2010 18:35:22 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > On 05/10/2010 04:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 21:21 +0530, A. Mani wrote: > >> How is the F13 installer supposed to behave on low ram > >> systems (<512)? > > > > You get to keep both pieces. =) > > > > Release notes state: > > > > # > > Minimum RAM for text-mode: 256 MiB > > # > > Minimum RAM for graphical: 348 MiB > > # > > Recommended RAM for graphical: 512 MiB > > > > it's a very inexact science, though, it depends on exactly > > what install media you're using and what kind of install > > you're trying to do. We try to keep to those numbers as > > much as possible. > > Ironically the installer requires two times more memory than > LXDE recommends ( 128+ MiB ) for run time usage > sad but true..... not long ago, I've heard something about plans to drop text mode support ... that would make it three times ;-) <useless rant> but I guess that LXDE should recommend at least 384 MiB when running on Fedora - last week I forgot to add "-m 512" to qemu, so I've started my virtual machine with the default of 128 MiB and 'yum upgrade' (in text mode, init 3) got killed ... so you need more, let's say 256 for yum + 128 for LXDE makes 384 btw, have I mentioned that 4 GiB modules are still not available in my favourite local store, and very few Internet shops here in Czech rep. have them (for insane prices, of course)? </useless rant> K. -- Karel Volný QE BaseOs/Daemons Team Red Hat Czech, Brno tel. +420 532294274 (RH: +420 532294111 ext. 8262074) xmpp kavol@xxxxxxxxx :: "Never attribute to malice what can :: easily be explained by stupidity."
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