Fedora HW requirements

[Jason Taylor]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Adam Pribyl <pribyl at lowlevel.cz> wrote:
> I am just bit surprised that Fedora hardware requirements remain same thru
> release notes from Fedora Core 2 (almost 5 years) ut to Fedora 10.
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/What_is_New_for_Installation_and_Live_Images.html#x86_specifics_for_Fedora
>
> I think we should consider to review this, as this is really getting
> outdated. I know that Fedora can run on P200MHz with 64MB RAM, but it's not
> usefull for work, and I would really not consider something like PII400MHz
> with 256MB of RAM as recommended hardware. I personaly start to feel
> slowness on PIII800MHz with 512MB of RAM with default Gnome, KDE4 is not
> possible use on this HW due to unresponsive GUI. I know this is much about
> the feeling, but recommended I would consider (looking into smolt results)
> something around 2GHz CPU and 1GB of RAM. For 64bit I think there should be
> mentioned that you need to have a CPU with either AMD64 or EM64T technology,
> the RAM and gigahertz may remain the same..
>
> Thanks for attention
>
> Adam Pribyl
>
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Being the one responsible for the beat, I found that tracking down the
numbers was more difficult than I would have thought. Testing being
done in virtual machines and actual/recommended requirement testing
numbers not being tested among other reasons. I was never able to get
anyone to nail down on specific numbers on the x86 stuff though the
dev folks were quite helpful on the ppc arch. Ideally some updated
numbers can be retrieved for F11.

-Jason