ot : _download_ requirements?

[cornel panceac]

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
> 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.)
>

unfortunately, anaconda itself has it's own minimum requirements, which are
bigger than the linux itself requirements . so i doubt anaconda will run on
systems with less than 256 mb of ram . maybe that's where 384 is coming
from.

>
> This should be filed as a request for the docs team, as they own the
> relevant document.
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