On Sun, September 7, 2014 2:04 pm, Mike Burger wrote: > On 2014-09-07 2:56 pm, Oliver Schad wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:48:36 -0700 >> John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: >> >>> On 9/7/2014 11:44 AM, Oliver Schad wrote: >>> > And CentOS 7 runs perfectly with 512 MB RAM >>> >>> https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits says 1GB minimum for >>> x86_64. >> >> It doesn't matter what it says. What matters is to think about >> ressources, even in a linux distro with long term support and >> enterprise features. >> >> Enterprise doesn't mean waste your money. And really, to double the >> memory to install a machine - are you kidding me? They've never thought >> about it and I really hate this attitude. >> >> Best Regards >> Oli > > Oli...perhaps instead of taking out your anger and frustration on the > CentOS packagers, you might wish to vent at the Upstream... I wouldn't even do that, because what they do they do for their customers, right? Valeri > because, when > all is said and done, CentOS is a repackaged RHEL. Whatever the > requirements are for the upstream are the requirements for CentOS. > Whatever the installer looks for in RHEL is going to be the same thing > that the installer looks for in CentOS. > > I will leave you with this minor piece of wisdome, which I've seen > repeated in this list many times: if you don't agree with the > requirements or feel that there's a bug in the installer, you are more > than welcome to file a bug report with the upstream. > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever > just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++