Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 5 00:56:10 UTC 2007


stan wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:08:30 -0500
> Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Tim wrote:
>>
>>>Just so you know, you can use a DVD on a system with a 500 MHz CPU,
>>>I do it.  I manage burning error-free DVDs quite nicely on a 500
>>>MHz Celeron with around only 380 megs of RAM, on FC4.  The minimum
>>>PC specs you see on DVD packaging generally is regards to what
>>>you'll need to run Windows and the DVD burning software that they
>>>provide with the burner.  Linux doesn't have the same overheads
>>>(inefficiencies) that Windows has.
>>
>>Umm? Windows XP runs my benchmark programs faster than Fedora does.
>>Please don't spread FUD. There are good reasons for some people
>>to run Linux rather than Windows, but "Windows is more inefficient"
>>is not one of them.
>>
>>Mike
> 
> Are these programs architecture/software neutral?  i.e. Were they

Dhrystones, Bytemark and a few others.

Mike
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