Subject: Re: Installfest feedback
From: Chris Hamilton (chris@digitalalaska.com)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 10:46:04 AKDT
Sounds good to me. I know that I don't like working on a slow computer.
Maybe the distro guru's can provide some suggestions?
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark-Nathaniel Weisman" <mark@outlander.us>
To: "Chris Hamilton" <chris@digitalalaska.com>; <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:35 AM
Subject: RE: Installfest feedback
>
> Chris,
> I think that we should be seen as being current, so if we are going to
> recommend anything to install on, we probably need to get the HCL
> recommendations from each of the current distros. If you start down the
> slippery slope of what you can install Linux on, you'll wind up with
> 80386 computers running stripped down versions of one distro or another.
> By the way my 80286 works great, it and it's 16MB of RAM seem to be just
> enough to provide Samba interaction with my Windoze boxes. I think we
> should look at the latest distros for the recommendations, huh?
>
> His humble servant,
> Mark-Nathaniel Weisman
> President
> Outland Domain Group Consulting
> Anchorage,AK USA
> http://www.outlander.us
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hamilton [mailto:chris@digitalalaska.com]=20
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:17 AM
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: Installfest feedback
>
>
>
> Hi all, we are putting together a flyer with info about the installfest.
>
> We are going to put minimum PC requirements on the flyer as well. So...
>
> What does everyone think the minimum requirements for a PC running linux
> should be?
>
> I was thinking P166 (too slow?) 64 MB RAM 2 GB harddrive. I know it
> depends
> greatly on the distro and usage, but we are just looking for some input
> from
> others out there. Maybe we'll have 2 categories for requirements:
> desktop
> and server. My thoughts are that the requirements for server/router can
> be
> a bit lower.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chris.
>
>
>
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