Confusing desktop system requirements (from [Bug 237114])

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Luke L <lukehasnoname at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would think the 256M/4G is correct as a minimum, and the 384M/8G is
> recommended. I do see that the second one says "recommended minimum"
> which is a little confusing.
>
> If you are looking for which is correct, I'd say that 256/4 could run
> a minimum installation.
>

It most probably depends on the type of installation, desktop versus
alternate.  When I got my Canonical Laptop for the Laptop testing
team, it only came with 256mb of ram, and that was fine until Edgy
came along, and that point the desktop installation via the LiveCD was
impossible on that laptop due to lack of resources.  Even blogged
about that on planet.u.c:

http://robitaille.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/finally-i-have-upgraded-my-laptop-to-feisty/

Granted I haven't tried any version of Ubuntu since Edgy on that
smaller amount of ram, but often requirements appears to always go up
not down with time...

So that figure of 384mb for  a LiveCD install sounds about right from
my past experience.

Daniel

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