Updating minimum requirements

[Yousuf Philips]

Hi Team,

Today I asked the community about the oldest PCs they are running Xubuntu
on, and the results can be seen at the links below.
https://www.facebook.com/xubuntuusers/posts/2791757004206522
https://twitter.com/Xubuntu/status/1255768852715180033

Here are some of the lowest specs pulled from the links above.
Intel Celeron 462 Mhz, 512MB RAM, Came with Windows 98
Intel Celeron M 900 MHz, 1GB RAM, Came with Asus Linux
Intel Atom N270, 1GB DDR2 RAM, Came with Windows XP Home

We can also utilize minimum requirements from other distros as a guide,
like Linux Mint, Linux Lite and Drauger OS
Pentium M 1.0GHz, 1GB RAM, 8GB HDD -
https://ubuntu-mate.org/about/requirements/
1Ghz CPU, 786MB RAM, 8GB HDD -
https://www.linuxliteos.com/download.php#requirements
x86 Processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB HDD -
https://peppermintos.com/guide/downloading/

I did a test with Xubuntu 18.04.3 installed in a VM with 1 CPU Core, 512MB
RAM, 20GB HDD and 1GB Swap and it seemed to run fine for basic tasks,
though it a single core of a Intel i5 Gen 4 @ 3.6GHz.

Looking at these details, maybe we dont need to modify the minimum specs,
but likely we should mention a minimum and recommended processor.


On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 6:49 PM Yousuf Philips <ypharis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
> I believe that we need to update the minimum requirements page with new
> minimum and recommended memory and hard disk space.
> https://xubuntu.org/requirements/
>
> Regards,
> Yousuf
>
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