[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Sat Sep 25 23:54:46 CEST 2010

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