[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

[Giuseppe Ghibò]

2010/9/25 Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org>

Again, you are missing the point, these machines are not desktop PCs
> running a GUI, any modern Linux distro still runs perfectly fine with
> 64-128MB and 10-15 year old cpus when used for many headless purposes.
>

For instance? Apart DSL which distro can you start the installer with 64MB
memory only (use 1GB swap?)? Were you able to install the 2010.1?


>
> There is no reason to artificially block Mageia from running on these
> machines (and their are far more common than you think).
>

Common where? There are schools and universities are dismitting hardware
like with P4/2.4Ghz and 512MB RAM for whatever use (either server or
desktop). And even older hardware no-ROHS, which should be dismantled
carefully.


> When planning a distro you need to think inclusion, not exclusion.
>
>
I'm not speaking about exclusion but about including or optimizing for arch
and hardware that NOBODY will use anymore, because can't.
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