[sf-lug] System requirements (was: A short and simple survey)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Akkana Peck (akkana at shallowsky.com):

> Admittedly, it must be hard to come up with numbers for that.
> Does it reflect the minimum system that can run the system at all?
> That can run the system with X and a lightweight window manager?
> That can run Gnome or KDE reasonably? That can run a modern browser?

It's not difficult.  You figure out the smallest RAM, CPU, and
storage host a manually-guided installation can accomplish, and state
that as 'Minimum Requirements'.  You figure out how much disk space,
CPU, and RAM suffices to make a default installation have reasonable
performance, and state that as 'Typical Requirements'.  And you mention
what you mean by that.

That was always the convention in the past, and it worked fine.

As to the recent slacker practice of big projects having ceased to
reveal that information about themselves, that's annoying but doesn't
matter much for purposes of distros revealing _their_ composite system
requirements, which they ought to independently derive in any event,
since their selection of components and construction of 'big projects'
can vary quite a bit.