Out of Space

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 23:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> If the development is done on the latest hardware the result
> much likely will have requirements like "64-bit dual-core or better x86
> CPU with SSE3 support" -https://www.bitwig.com/en/support/faq.html ,
> let alone desktop environments such as GNOME, that need faster 3D
> support than Google Earth does.

Er... I don't want to say people should be forced to upgrade for no good
reason.  However, I don't think needing SSE3 to run well can really be
considered requiring "the latest and greatest hardware"!

SSE3 was released on Intel Prescott Pentium 4 CPUs in early 2004, and
was available on AMD systems in early 2005 on Athlon 64.  That's about
12 years ago... that doesn't seem like an outrageous requirement to me.
 If you really want to use such specialized systems I recommend that you
switch to a more specialized Linux distribution that caters to older and
lower-powered systems: they are definitely out there, for exactly these
situations!  That's what makes Linux great: it can cater to the entire
range of users needs.  But, not necessarily with the exact same
distribution!

My desktop at home uses a Q9300 Intel Core2 Quad (2.5GHz), which was
released in 2008, and I run the very latest Ubuntu GNOME on it and it
works absolutely fine.