system requirements for Fedora 9
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 30 03:14:14 UTC 2008
--- max bianco <maximilianbianco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Antonio Olivares
> <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I know that the release notes have not come out,
> but I
> > want to find out what are the bare minimum
> > requirements to get Fedora 9 installed onto a
> > computer.
> >
> > I have seen Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS (Hardy Heron) being
> > released and they have a page with the system
> > requirements:
> >
> >
>
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
> >
> > I looked for the Fedora equivalent page but the
> > closest I have found is
> >
> >
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific
> >
> > but it only specifies for installation purposes.
> I
> > would like to know the requirements because
> several of
> > my friends have become interested in linux and I
> told
> > them to install Fedora, one already installed
> *buntu
> > and he is loving it.
> >
> > What are the requirements for KDE?
> >
> > for Gnome?
> >
> > XFce?
> >
> > other DE if they also count?
> >
> > Would Fedora 9 work ok with a machine with the
> > following specs
> >
> > cat /proc/cpuinfo
> >
> > processor : 0
> > vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> > cpu family : 6
> > model : 7
> > model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
> > stepping : 3
> > cpu MHz : 451.017
> > cache size : 512 KB
> > fdiv_bug : no
> > hlt_bug : no
> > f00f_bug : no
> > coma_bug : no
> > fpu : yes
> > fpu_exception : yes
> > cpuid level : 2
> > wp : yes
> > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce
> cx8
> > sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
> > bogomips : 903.08
> > clflush size : 32
> >
> > cat /proc/meminfo
> >
> > MemTotal: 510372 kB
> > MemFree: 20152 kB
> > Buffers: 47824 kB
> > Cached: 276884 kB
> > SwapCached: 4 kB
> > Active: 203556 kB
> > Inactive: 241360 kB
> > HighTotal: 0 kB
> > HighFree: 0 kB
> > LowTotal: 510372 kB
> > LowFree: 20152 kB
> > SwapTotal: 1052248 kB
> > SwapFree: 1052244 kB
> > Dirty: 0 kB
> > Writeback: 0 kB
> > AnonPages: 120204 kB
> > Mapped: 46632 kB
> > Slab: 25136 kB
> > SReclaimable: 15952 kB
> > SUnreclaim: 9184 kB
> > PageTables: 1368 kB
> > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
> > Bounce: 0 kB
> > CommitLimit: 1307432 kB
> > Committed_AS: 257348 kB
> > VmallocTotal: 507896 kB
> > VmallocUsed: 13172 kB
> > VmallocChunk: 494600 kB
> >
> > would a machine like this one run Fedora 9 ok or
> is
> > better to try something like Xubuntu?
> >
> > I would like your recommendations for a friend.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance,
> >
> > Antonio
> >
> I installed the F9 Alpha on a p3 w 512 RAM and a 12
> gb hdd, GNOME ran
> acceptably. Old dell optiplex.
>
>
> Max
>
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Awesome :). As soon as Fedora 9 is released,
hopefully before May 30/31 I'll try to install it, if
he was not convinced to put *Buntu where * can be X,K,
or regular U.
Regards,
Antonio
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