Another person introduced to Fedora

During this week I have been contacted by a doctor who works in a hospital in Rome. He told me his Sony Vaio laptop (owned by the hospital) he uses for work was very slow. The computer had the factory-OEM propertary operating system that I replaced with Fedora KDE. The moment I returned the laptop to him, I also introduced him to GNU Health in the hope he could spread the voice around in healthcare enviroment.
He really enjoyed the speedness of Fedora and he was very curious about the community, the free software and many things we really care about. So I spent some time introducing it to the world of global benefits of free software.

Old Pentium III 256MB ram brought to life

Some days ago a person, who owns a private philosophy school, asked me if could manage to let a laptop work again. It is an old Fujitsu-Siemens Pentium III with only 256MB of ram. She did not have any hopes since the computer is rather old. I told her I would have installed Fedora LXDE on that computer and I did it. I used a workaround since Anaconda does not allow to install Fedora on computers with less than 512MB ram, so I had to use the command:

liveinst --nomemcheck

Now the computer runs rather fast, and this is the ram usage in idle

[user@computer ~]$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           243        223         20          0         13        127
-/+ buffers/cache:         82        160
Swap:          510          0        510

The following day I returned the computer to her and she liked a lot that she can use again this computer, that in other circumstancies would have been carried in rubbish dump.

Linux best friend of enviroment!

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Hi, I am a volunteer in Fedora project, and this is a blog that will accompany me during the process to become (hopefully) an ambassador of this project.