Re: F21 Workstation Hardware Requirements

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On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Pete Travis <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When I was originally drafting the Hardware Requirements copy, I tried to
> stay away from the minimum/recommended distinction.  It isn't easy to draw a
> line and say "on this side you will have a great experience, and on this
> side you will have a merely functional experience, and across this other
> line it probably won't run at all."  I think users can generally understand
> "more is better", and make an appropriate judgment based on explanation of
> the factors involved and available options.  Following that line of
> thinking, we could say *suggest* at least 2GB of RAM, with a caveat that
> less RAM might be a compromise some could find acceptable, and more RAM
> would be better.
>
> WRT the actual figure, systems that are preconfigured with 2GB of RAM are
> probably going to be mid/high Pentium 4 era systems, or low/mid range
> Core2Dou era systems with i915 -ie 4 years or more out of production.  A

I don't think we want to encourage installing Workstation on any
32-bit platform.

josh
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