Fedora HW requirements

Adam Pribyl pribyl at lowlevel.cz
Tue Nov 25 22:13:52 UTC 2008


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outdated.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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