On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:25 AM Michal Schorm <mschorm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sigh, it is useless to search for Fedora documentation on google ... > anything but _current_ Docs will be found. > > > Only Fedora Workstation edition explicitly states minimum hardware > > requirements: "Fedora requires a minimum of 20GB disk, 2GB RAM, to > > install and run successfully. Double those amounts is recommended." > > https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ > And this doubling is not to be found in the Docs [1] in any other > aspect than RAM size. The recommended HDD size value is 1/3 bigger > than the minimal one. > > Also, the minimal CPU speed requirement apparently doubled between F32 > and F33, but I don't see any Fedora Change for F33 listing that. [2] > > Both of that goes to a question - how are those values decided in the > first place ? > > To target the Workstation edition regarding those values seems OK. > However it seems to be far from the minimal requirements for a > headless server, which is surely fine with less than 5GB of disk > space. > > I believe that there are some technical limitations that we should list. > E.g. having a 64-bit CPU with certain instructions / capabilities (at > least for the X86_64 architecture family) > Everything other than the hard technical limits is just an educated > guess or assumption ... > We'd have to go with saying what brand processor families are acceptable minimums, because checking for instructions/capabilities is not something I expect people to reasonably do. An example of what I'm talking about is the Windows XP minimum system requirements[1], which listed the Pentium as the minimum because of the ISA requirements. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#System_requirements -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
