Documentation regarding system requirements for feisty/or edgy, hoary, dapper

Phil Bull philbull at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 21:29:24 UTC 2007


Hi Shirish,

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:10 +0530, shirish agarwal wrote:
> Hi all,
>         I wanted to see what sort of system requirements are required
> by Feisty. System requirements meaning :-
> 
> e.g. for desktop :-
> Type of machine :- p3 1000 mhz
> RAM :- 64 MB RAM
> Graphics/VRAM :-  Anything above 4 MB RAM 
>           or something to that effect. None of the recent (as well as
> not so recent) distros. tell about that. The only link I found
> something suitable was at
> http://ftp.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/dists/warty/main/installer-i386/current/doc/manual/en/ch03s04.html which talks about warty. 
>           Another thing, unless one looks at the URI or URL one cannot
> know whether its warty, hoary or some recent distro. There should be
> some distinguishing feature or way so one knows it at a glance
> (without it being obstructive for the gentleman who is partially blind
> & is therefore trying to make the mp3s &/or oggs) . Lemme know what u
> guys think? Thanx in advance.       

I ran into this problem a couple of weeks ago - there doesn't seem to be
any proper system requirements document available. I created one on the
help wiki, but the numbers aren't very reliable [1]. Please amend it as
appropriate.

Thanks,

Phil

[1] - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements

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