Confusing desktop system requirements (from [Bug 237114])

[Glauber Machado Rodrigues (Ananda)]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Dan Shearer <dan at shearer.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 11:35:59AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> > I don't know where the 8GB disk figure comes from.  I continued to do all
> of
> > my ISO testing in a 4GB disk slice up to the very end of the release
> cycle.
> > I'm guessing this recommendation is an estimate of 4GB for the system,
> 4GB
> > for user data?
>
> I think minimum disk is not possible to encapsulate without a formula,
> because at the lower end modern RAM requirements introduce a very large
> percentage error because of swap sizes. Eg 8G of disk could have
> > 25% of space lost if the machine has 2Gb of RAM, guaranteed to be so
> if you want to use hibernation. Generous RAM and miserly disk makes
> sense in a lot of virtualised desktop situations.
>
> So, as an example and with some explanation: 4G+3G+125%*RAM ?
>
> I am guessing the equation used by the installer is more complicated,
> but I couldn't easily find it in the ubiquity tree.
>

Wandering if we could change the "is required" sentence to "we recommend at
least" .

Hard to tell how ninja the user is.

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