<div dir="ltr">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. </div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:17 PM Eric Curtin <<a href="mailto:ericcurtin17@gmail.com">ericcurtin17@gmail.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>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.<div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto">But yeah if we wanted to simplify why mention version at all like it currently is.</div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat 2 May 2020, 14:08 Eero Tamminen, <<a href="mailto:oak@helsinkinet.fi" target="_blank">oak@helsinkinet.fi</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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 <<a href="mailto:sean@bluesabre.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">sean@bluesabre.org</a>> 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: >> >> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64</a> >> >> 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. >> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/xubuntuusers/posts/2791757004206522" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/xubuntuusers/posts/2791757004206522</a> >> <a href="https://twitter.com/Xubuntu/status/1255768852715180033" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Xubuntu/status/1255768852715180033</a> >> >> 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 - >> <a href="https://ubuntu-mate.org/about/requirements/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ubuntu-mate.org/about/requirements/</a> >> 1Ghz CPU, 786MB RAM, 8GB HDD - >> <a href="https://www.linuxliteos.com/download.php#requirements" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linuxliteos.com/download.php#requirements</a> >> x86 Processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB HDD - >> <a href="https://peppermintos.com/guide/downloading/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://peppermintos.com/guide/downloading/</a> >> >> 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 <<a href="mailto:ypharis@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ypharis@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >>> Hi Team, >>> >>> I believe that we need to update the minimum requirements page with new >>> minimum and recommended memory and hard disk space. >>> <a href="https://xubuntu.org/requirements/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://xubuntu.org/requirements/</a> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Yousuf >>> >> >> -- >> xubuntu-devel mailing list >> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> >> > > -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div></div></div> -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div>