[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Sun Sep 26 00:12:54 CEST 2010

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote:
+>
+> 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?
+
+Centos 4 installs and runs perfectly fine on a Pentium II 350Mhz with 
+128MB RAM, I know it because I installed such a box for a friend as home 
+server running 24/7 (with DNS server, apache and some other stuff).
+I didn't try Mandriva since it lacks long term support.
+
+> 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.
+
+You are seeing everything from a limited european POV, the P4 you say is 
+being thrown away here is a top-end system in some other countries.
+Mageia is supposed to be for the whole world, not just EU/US/BRICs.
+
+With regards to ISA cards, you can even still buy brand new modern mobos 
+with ISA slots right here in Europe, they are still common for 
+industrial uses:
+http://www.spectra.de/produkte/114184/web/spectra/Datenblatt-PMB-601LF.pdf?CFID=92074854-8638-47f6-a589-6517cde18fb1&CFTOKEN=0
+
+> I'm not speaking about exclusion but about including or optimizing for arch
+> and hardware that NOBODY will use anymore, because can't.
+
+The optimization you are talking about (which will increase 
+performance by a few percentage points at most, not noticeable at all 
+in practice) means that the distro will be unusable for others.
+
+