Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | | Subject | Re: draft for review - press release | | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:30:01 +0100 (CET) |
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> > System Requirements of Linux kernel version 2.2.0: > The minimum system requirements to run Linux 2.2.0 are a computer with a > i386, i486, i586 or compatible processor, a single floppy drive and > 5MBytes of RAM. A minimum of 8MBytes of RAM is recommended for good > performance. > A complete GNU/Linux system, complete with kernel sources, X windows and > various applications requires approximately 80MBytes of hard disk space. > The Linux kernel is available for several processors including Alpha, > m68k, sparc and powerPC platforms. Other CPU ports are becoming > available, including ARM and other risc processors.
Writing something like that really makes no sense. The requirements are clearly for Intel only (and I'm not sure if e.g. the 5MB limitation is correct), so if you'd want to write something like that, you'd probably have to list the ports and then for each platform list the minimum requirements, or at least mention the ia32 requirements under some Intel section. Also, I don't know where the 80MB comes from... that's just a wild guess, I'd think. On the other side, for a kernel announce it would be a good idea to list all the ports, not just some. It is fairly easy to do ls linux/arch/
> > The major new features/enhancements of version 2.2.0 include: > - Improved kernel response time. > - Improved SMP support for up to 16 processors.
I don't understand why do you have to put numbers everywhere, especially when they are incorrect. Linux happily runs on 30 CPU boxes, it might soon run on 64 CPU ones as well, so why the 16 there. Of course, there are several SMP bottlenecks to be worked out in 2.3+, but they just mean Linux does not scale as much as it could on high end boxes.
> - addition of support for ROM file system.
Mentioning ROM fs is an implementation detail, I'd guess there are far more much more important new things in 2.2 than this one (not that I'm not using it for install floppies).
I'd think kernel press release should either give correct numbers, or none at all.
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