Updating minimum requirements

[Yousuf Philips]

Thanks for the suggestions. I've tweaked it a bit and its been published.
Once 21.04 is releasing, we can remove the PA line.

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:17 PM Eric Curtin <ericcurtin17 at gmail.com> wrote:

> True I think that's a typo should read 18.04 or greater. 18.04 is
> supported until 2021, many people such as myself wait to upgrade for
> stability reasons. Even 18.04 itself won't upgrade until the first point
> release.
>
> But yeah if we wanted to simplify why mention version at all like it
> currently is.
>
>
> On Sat 2 May 2020, 14:08 Eero Tamminen, <oak at helsinkinet.fi> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 5/1/20 6:03 AM, Yousuf Philips wrote:
>> > Here is my suggestion for how the minimum section should look.
>> >
>> > To *install* and *use Xubuntu* 20.04 or higher, you need a 64-bit
>> processor
>> > with at least *512 MB of memory*. You can also *try Xubuntu* within
>> athe USD
>> > or DesktopDVD with the same amount of memory. Keep in mind that running
>> the
>> > system from a USB or DVD will be slower than an installed system.
>> >
>> > When you install Xubuntu from the Desktop DVD, you need about 87.5 GB of
>> > free space on your hard disk.
>> >
>> > *Your processor* needs to *support PAE* in order to run Xubuntu 18.04 or
>> > lower.
>>
>> Why mention anything about 18.04 or older, now that 20.04 is out?
>>
>> (It's better to specify how user can find whether his/her machine is
>> supported, than to use cryptic PAE abbreviation.)
>>
>>
>>         - Eero
>>
>>
>> > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 1:40 AM Sean Davis <sean at bluesabre.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> It should be noted that Xubuntu 20.04 and newer doesn't support
>> >> 32-bit/i386. So we might be able to utilize or reference this, or
>> otherwise
>> >> somehow make that clear:
>> >>
>> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >> On 4/30/20 4:04 PM, Yousuf Philips wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 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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