Re: [ossig] Fedora Core 3 Released!

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 23:52 +0100, SianLun Lau wrote:

> > machines w/16mb of RAM. While its nowhere near pretty, it will
> > serve its purpose in brining up X. Will it run apps? ;-)
> 
> at this point of time, i tot old obselete computers are defined as the
> Pentium IIs since we have super duper 3GHzs now :P

Well, most modern distros are also compiled with Pentium 4 extensions on
x86 - so it might be wiser to rebuild them (package wise?) into i586
packages

Trying to push a 486, with 16MB of RAM to the "poorer" will just make
them hate the open source world, imho. Bad impressions it will give them

> SianLun ... still running a loyal Piii 650 notebook...

As I am running on an 800Mhz G3, mostly scaled to 400MHz ;-)
-- 
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi


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