On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Al Dunsmuir <al.dunsmuir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would suggest that the KVM folks would view your suggested baseline
with a very real sense of outrage.
As a Fedora user with a mix of older hardware and new, I am
uncomfortable with a casual approach to either minimum or recommended
resource values.
For real hardware, it is important that Fedora be successfully able
to install in older hardware running a previous Fedora release. This
ensures that folks are able to continue to run Fedora, but in a secure
and supported manner. Overstating the installation requirements tends
to discourage folks from upgrading (so they run insecure code), or can
force them to move to a different distribution for _NO_GOOD_REASON_.
It has the secondary effect that little or no effort is made (at the
development or test stages) to ensure that the install runs with minimal
resources. Assuming too high a resource requirement becomes a self
fulfilling problem.
For virtual machines, there has been much discussion in the
main development list over the last year regarding working towards an
absolute minimalist installation and runtime requirement. For the
case where many virtual instances are required to coexist on the same
host, small differences make enormous differences in the final totals.
I would strongly advise against an overly simplistic approach. In
the end, it benefits no one. Bring the development community into the
discussion, and come up with reasonable classes of systems to be
installed and operated as well as realistic final values for each
class.
Anaconda development should have the ability (and resources) to
perform instrumented installations to measure and really understand what
factors contribute to the overall resource requirements. This will
help with a goal of reducing (or at absolute minimum stabilizing)
these resource requirements.
Al
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You make a good point here, Al. Fedora can be used in a lot of different ways, and a single set of requirements isn't very revealing. The 'recommended' figures I threw out were for the default package set - A Gnome desktop - and I suppose 'minimum' system requirements could be the requirements for @minimum. We can break it down further.
I'll pose the question on the devel list as well, and see what kind of roles the community feels we should represent.
--Pete
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