On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:26 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
However, some $DEITY's have decided otherwise ...
I am inclined to think "inevitably, because such platforms aren't the
platforms most developers use nor the platforms "RHEL is aiming at" ...
These people think in terms of "Quad machines" and "RH clients", but
forget about the amount of "old" machines which are still actively being
used and about "use-case niches".
A+ for, eventually, coming to the obvious solution. Although,
personally, I haven't had a quad core yet all the computers I currently
have running are either laptops or dual cores. The minimum RAM size on
any of these 5 boxes is 2GB.
I'd be surprised to find that anyone working as a full time developer
has any (non-virt) boxes that are spec'd less than that.
And yes, shockingly, developers will test on the machines they have
easy access to.
So, yeh, if _you_ want to support slower machines ... _you_ will have
to do the work, you might get help from the community but just ranting
on f-d-l "Everyone should solve my problems" is unlikely to actually
help. IMO.
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