<div dir="ltr"><div class="" id="magicdomid2"><span class="">As technological boundaries move </span><span class="">on, and</span><span class=""> as newer hardware</span><span class=""> and software</span><span class=""> make t</span><span class="">heir</span><span class=""> presence</span><span class="">s</span><span class=""> felt</span><span class="">,</span><span class=""> perhaps it is time to take a look at our hardware requirements. [1]</span></div>

<div class="" id="magicdomid3"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid4"><span class="">Many users move to Xubuntu from older computers to try to "revitalize" them. </span><span class=""> </span><span class="">W</span><span class="">hile</span><span class=""> the system will work, </span><span class="">and</span><span class=""> they will be able to use the programs that we </span><span class="">ship</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">i</span><span class="">n our default installation, </span><span class="">it is possible that </span><span class="">a computer with only the minimum requirements will not provide the</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">type of </span><span class="">experience we would wish to show the world.</span></div>

<div class="" id="magicdomid5"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid6"><span class="">As Xubuntu is not exclusively targeted toward older systems</span><span class="">,</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">we</span><span class=""> believe that </span><span class="">it </span><span class="">is important to warn our p</span><span class="">rospective</span><span class=""> users about this </span><span class="">issue</span><span class="">.</span></div>

<div class="" id="magicdomid7"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid8"><span class="">W</span><span class="">e know that many of you deploy </span><span class="">X</span><span class="">ubuntu </span><span class="">on a </span><span class=""> regular basis</span><span class="">,</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">so </span><span class="">we</span><span class="">'re</span><span class=""> ask</span><span class="">ing</span><span class=""> you to </span><span class="">tell</span><span class=""> us </span><span class="">what you </span><span class="">consider to be</span><span class=""> a</span><span class=""> <b>realistic</b> Minimum and Recommended setup.</span></div>

<div class="" id="magicdomid9"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid10"><span class="">Specifically</span><span class=""> we would</span><span class=""> like to know</span><span class=""> how much RAM and Hard Disk space you would recommend to </span><span class="">a </span><span class="">new user</span><span class=""> if you were going to install Xubuntu for them</span><span class="">.</span></div>

<div class="" id="magicdomid11"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid24"><span class="">C</span><span class="">ould </span><span class="">they </span><span class="">still work with the stated minimum of 512MB of RAM and 4.4Gb of hard disk space for a desktop install?</span></div>

<div class="" id="magicdomid13"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid14"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid15"><span class="">[1] </span><span class=""><a href="http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/">http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/</a></span><span class=""></span></div>

<div class="" id="magicdomid16"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid17"><span class="">-- </span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid18"><span class="">Bruno.-</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid19"><br></div>
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