> Common where? There are schools and universities are dismitting hardware
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.
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, often leftover stock lines earlier from the U.S. and Europe. In many department shops here, for example, Core2Duo is sold as if it were the last flavor of the moment.
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.
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?
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> like with P4/2.4Ghz and 512MB RAM for whatever use (either server orYou are seeing everything from a limited european POV, the P4 you say is
> desktop). And even older hardware no-ROHS, which should be dismantled
> carefully.
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.
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.
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, often leftover stock lines earlier from the U.S. and Europe. In many department shops here, for example, Core2Duo is sold as if it were the last flavor of the moment.
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.
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?
[PS: I did not break the thread this time, broke?]
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