On 4/29/06, Philip Pemberton wrote: > I installed FC5 on my machine this morning. 600MB of updates to download! I just installed FC5 on one of the spare partition of my PC. I have not done the updates though. I just wonder if they are really necessary or not. Then I tried some GNUPIC tools and FC5 seems to be running well so far. > Hmm, seems fine on my machine.. AMD Athlon64 3200+, 1GB RAM in dual channel > mode, 180GB HDD (spanned over three drives), 128MB GeForce 6600GT AGP8x, and > a pair of DVD writers. Stupidly overpowered for what I do with it, but it's > nice to be able to rebuild the Linux kernel in a reasonable time :) Wow you machine is a bit better than mine (AMD3000+, NF3, 2x512MB DDR SDRAM, 80G+160GB HDD, 128MB ATI9800SE AGP8x, single DVD writer. Yes it is quite fast even though it is about one year old. But I hope the 2Mbps cable modem connection can be faster... I do not rebuild the Linux kernel so often. Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist