On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:25 AM Michal Schorm <mschorm(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Sigh, it is useless to search for Fedora documentation on google ...
anything but _current_ Docs will be found.
> Only Fedora Workstation edition explicitly states minimum hardware
> requirements: "Fedora requires a minimum of 20GB disk, 2GB RAM, to
> install and run successfully. Double those amounts is recommended."
>
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/
And this doubling is not to be found in the Docs [1] in any other
aspect than RAM size. The recommended HDD size value is 1/3 bigger
than the minimal one.
Also, the minimal CPU speed requirement apparently doubled between F32
and F33, but I don't see any Fedora Change for F33 listing that. [2]
Both of that goes to a question - how are those values decided in the
first place ?
To target the Workstation edition regarding those values seems OK.
However it seems to be far from the minimal requirements for a
headless server, which is surely fine with less than 5GB of disk
space.
I believe that there are some technical limitations that we should list.
E.g. having a 64-bit CPU with certain instructions / capabilities (at
least for the X86_64 architecture family)
Everything other than the hard technical limits is just an educated
guess or assumption ...
We'd have to go with saying what brand processor families are
acceptable minimums, because checking for instructions/capabilities is
not something I expect people to reasonably do. An example of what I'm
talking about is the Windows XP minimum system requirements[1], which
listed the Pentium as the minimum because of the ISA requirements.
[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#System_requirements
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