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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20100925/c79acd86/attachment-0001.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20100925/c79acd86/attachment-0001.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..140a88389 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20100925/c79acd86/attachment-0001.html @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;">> Common where? There are schools and universities are dismitting hardware<BR><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><DIV>
+> like with P4/2.4Ghz and 512MB RAM for whatever use (either server or<BR>
+> desktop). And even older hardware no-ROHS, which should be dismantled<BR>
+> carefully.<BR>
+<BR>
+</DIV>You are seeing everything from a limited european POV, the P4 you say is<BR>
+being thrown away here is a top-end system in some other countries.<BR>
+Mageia is supposed to be for the whole world, not just EU/US/BRICs.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR>I don't want to deprive the fun of building a router or a firewall from an old P133/64 with two ethernet cards, or some mediabox, but often you can't (and sometimes you pay of energy power in a year much more than getting some 30-50E linksys ARM linux based router. And when soemone try such kind of attempts in the real world with your distro, will be very disappointed of failures. That's why I in some way asked a survey of oldest hardware based on own experiences.<BR><BR>I fully agree, At "first world" countries, Like Europe ones or USA, people can buy the most recet PCS, but at "Thrird world" countries - Like Brazil, what is part of BRIC, or many Africa nations - this is very unacessible by population, even with government programs, like Brazil's "Computador para Todos" (computer for everyone) that sells low-cost PCs with inferior hardware, <SPAN><SPAN style="" title="">often leftover stock lines earlier from the U.S. and Europe. In many department shops here, for example, Core2Duo is </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN style="" title="">sold as if it were the last flavor of the moment.</SPAN></SPAN><BR><BR>If, where you are, Pentium I - 4 and 32-bit platform is a museum thing, in most World parts, is not. I know people that, nowadays, uses a Pentium 200 with 64MB RAM as main computer.<BR><BR>Despite Mageia main target be current computers, we must think in these people; 32-bit will not die anytime soon. Then: Do we need compile 32-bit edition as i586 - and support Pentium and above, i686 - and support Pentium Pro and above, or do a Mageia Lite edition?<BR><BR>[PS: <SPAN><SPAN style="" title="">I did not break the thread this time, broke?</SPAN></SPAN>]<BR></DIV></DIV><A href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev"></A><BR> <BR><HR>Washington DC's Largest FREE Email service. ---> http://www.DCemail.com ---> A Washington Online Community Member ---><BR>http://www.DCpages.com</DIV>
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