Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

[Kam Leo]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Mike Williams <dmikewilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/25/2011 10:44 AM, Kam Leo wrote:
>> > It seems that the installer files
>> > have gotten fatter and more memory is required.
>>
>> When I checked http://fedoraproject.org/ yesterday, it said that Fedora
>> 15 required 500 MB RAM; now, it says 768.  I don't know if the Release
>> Notes have been updated yet, but it's right there on their home page.
>
> There are more details here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682555
>
> Mike

After reading the bug report I can only shake my head.

1. The problem was known at least a month before the release date.
2. QA feels that they're powerless to flag this problem as a show stopper.
3. Release Notes have long lead times and are no longer suitable for
flagging important last minute changes in system requirements.