On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 at 02:20, drago01 drago01@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, October 18, 2021, Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com wrote:
Is it worth paying hundreds of MBytes of installer space, and the new 2 GB minimum RAM to simply install Fedora? I'm not saying "discard anaconda". I'm saying "be aware of some very real reasons the installer has gotten so huge". And keep it in mind for your own projects.
Yes today's hardware is not the same we had at that time. Saving disk space and memory for the sake of saving disk space and memory is to use your words "not worth it".
This conversation is one that seems to happen to computer people as they age. I remember in the early 1990's that the Sun 4.1 installer was incredibly bloated and required too much memory/cpu to anyone who had installed a PDP, IBM 360x, etc. And the arguments we had when the Fedora Core 1 being so bloated to the Red Hat Linux 4 installer. etc etc. The standard ending of these conversations is "coders these days just don't care about memory/cpu/disk space like we had to". [Completely forgetting that was what they were told when they were 20 years younger.]
Of course, if memory/cpu/disk was really important... you could still use that Fedora Core 1 as your daily driver. It would just take some work.