fedora 13 on old hardware?

[ManicTheHedgehog]

i'm in the process of downloading a copy of fedora 13 with Kde desktop
and i'm just wondering if it can be made to work on a 1.1GHz p3 cpu
and 512mb of SD ram.
if anyone has any experience with fedora 13 throw me an email will ya?

[Warren Izzard]

Hi, quick note and will supply details tomorrow.....

Already tried it and it was not a pleasant experience.
generally....not user friendly and difficult to install.
You are better off staying Debian based with Linux distros.

Got an early start tomorrow and can't supply the details till I get home from work.

Cheers
Warren.

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[ManicTheHedgehog]

i dunno how it works elsewhere but in my family there be a saying.
"you cant learn if you dont try"

i probably am better off staying with debian based systems but i wont
know if i like
fedora unless i get hands on experience.
a close friend of mine raves about fedora being good. so i thought i
might give it a try.
besides. it cant hurt to expand my library of distros a bit.
i just wanna know if it will work under aforementioned circumstances.
and what
i could do to make it work better if neccessary.
its a pga478 socket cpu. could be a p4 not quite sure. havent checked.
all i know is theres not much option for cpu upgrades and SD ram dont
come in anything
bigger than 256mb sticks and i got 2 sockets.
unless i can find anything that might work better on this box fedora
gonna have to do the job.
(and dont suggest puppy. i remember martin saying it was a pain to
install)

[Jordo1234]

Im not from toowoomba, but im the guy who got Manic here into Linux
oh and im the close friend obsessed with Fedora, :P
P3 and 512MB Might MIGHT run FC13 so try it but dont get your hopes up
If all else fails just fall back to good ol' ubuntu.

[toady]

Sorry Manic - no current non-Puppy experience that I could help you
with...

As you already know, for something that vintage you might have to
restrict your chosen distro to match the role you really want for that
machine. I've just had a similar experience tying to resurrect a
1.8GHz Athlon (with Puppy) and found that because I had a mix of SD-
card and ye olde ATA on IDE1 and IDE2, respectively, only Puppies with
a Linux kernel of 2.6.21.7 OR EARLIER would run properly on it. So you
have the kernel to consider in terms of your hardware support, as well
as the sophistication of the environment of your chosen distro (e.g.
QT4 requirements etc, how you're running your X windows environment).
Or it might just work straight out of the box...

Cheers!
On Jun 28, 8:15 pm, ManicTheHedgehog <technomance...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

[Warren Izzard]

Hi,

ok (he said tearing himself away from the chaos of multiple monitors and driver issues...)

I tried Fedora 13 on an old P3 ...the one I was building for the install fest  1 gig cpu and 512 ram....and it went on ok.

The issues I encountered....
lack of repositories and covering of restricted codecs for DRM.
Most of the software such as VLC Skype etc are not in the repository  and it was an issue to find repositories that included them,  the next issue was installing the repositories in synaptic....(failed to set them up even from command line)
Found them as packages....and  then found a lot of the terminal commands are different  (is root su sudo or ksudo ?? and it is not apt-get install either ??)
I couldn't be bothered with a steep learning curve for a new system...the desktop GUI is pretty much the same as Kubuntu anyway  so I decided to let it all go and get back to familiar territory.

On starting the Partition Manager in Ubuntu I found that Fedora had installed as VM ??
and re organised the partitions and installed additional ones which meant running  an xp disc and deleting the aditional partitions and resetting them back to my original configuaration so I know  what is where in there.

My general overview...it will run on p3  but it is not worth the hassles and problems it brings with it....good luck (ps...Mandriva also installs as vm as well and has pretty much the same issues)

Warren.