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 <[email protected]> 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, <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 >> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> xubuntu-devel mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel >> >> >> > >> > >> >> -- >> xubuntu-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel >> > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel >
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