2010/9/25 Tux99 <[email protected]> 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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