Kevin Verma wrote:

Hello,

Quoting on the subject, I had gone through a review article for Gnome 2.14 and I began wondering if FC5 release notes should mention a reviewed hardware requirement for GNOME 2.14 based desktop installations, as per the facts delivered in this review article ( http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/17/0350228 ).

"Still, even allowing for my unscientific timing, the increase in speed is impressive. It should be especially welcome on older, RAM-challenged machines."

For some reasons I am not using rawhide as of now, so some one else would be in a better position to suggest and test further, Rahul ?

The requirements specified in the release notes can be still considered reasonable. I have been running it with reasonable performance on lower end systems though.

I will also like to mention couple of facts that member developers of FC team from developed countries could learn during Linux Asia 06, (since those are not qouted much anywhere else) that in developing nations, power disruptions affected and low on resources machines .... --> expect Linux installations self recoverable,

Should happen at some point. check out rescue mode automation at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaWorkItems.

--> expects software suspend an important feature,

There has been some integration work done earlier. It should work on many systems for Fedora Core 5. If it doesnt, kindly file bug reports with the hardware details.

--> expects lower hardware requirements.

The work that has been happening on the OLPC front - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC should help clean up dependencies and yield some performance benefits for low end systems.

Rahul, Chris, Greg ?

Thanks & Cheers, Kevin