ot : _download_ requirements?

[Michał Piotrowski]

2010/10/30 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>:
> On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 14:53 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 08:41:50PM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>>  > 2010/10/29 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>:
>>  > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 09:06:42AM +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
>>  > >  > here
>>  > >  > http://fedoraproject.org/
>>  > >  > i see a section called "Download requirements"
>>  > >  >
>>  > >  > shouldn't it be "Install requirements" instead?
>>  > >
>>  > > Also the '400MHz pentium pro' part reads oddly, given the
>>  > > fastest pentium pro was 200MHz.
>>  >
>>  > Maybe "Runs fine on Atom 230?" - in terms of speed it's like 2000/2001
>>  > cpu. Sounds reasonable enough?
>>
>> I'd suggest just replacing with "a modern processor". It's ambiguous, but
>> it doesn't encourage people to go dig out things from last century.
>
> I'd like to just ditch the whole section and replace it with something
> vaguer. Maybe realistic minimums for the default desktop, and a note
> that the requirements will vary widely depending on what you're doing
> with the system. (My mailserver is currently using a princely 119MB of

This is from my home devel server
Mem:   2028624k total,  1921892k used,   106732k free,    97760k buffers

may be an appropriate slogan would be "This system can use as much
memory as you can give"? :)

This system uses 256MB+ shortly after boot

Kind regards,
Michal

> RAM, and that's a perfectly valid use case for Fedora. Well, that
> actually runs Mandriva, but I expect it'd be much the same on Fedora.)
>
> This should be filed as a request for the docs team, as they own the
> relevant document.
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