I fully Agree. I'm Brazilian. I see many peoples here that uses old PC's and notebooks with simple configuration. I think that Mageia can have an version lite, however not now. In the moment we must keep the focus on a single desktop version (586) .
Júnior Em 25 de setembro de 2010 21:45, André Machado <afmach...@dcemail.com>escreveu: > > 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. > > > 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?] > <https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev> > > ------------------------------ > Washington DC's Largest FREE Email service. ---> http://www.DCemail.com---> A > Washington Online Community Member ---> > http://www.DCpages.com > > _______________________________________________ > Mageia-dev mailing list > Mageia-dev@mageia.org > https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev >
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