On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Pete Travis <lists@petetravis.com> wrote:

Hello,

The docs team has begun assembling release notes for Fedora 19, and I've been thinking over hardware requirements.

Historically, we have cited the CPU, storage, and especially memory requirements for the default installation - a basic GNOME desktop. I'd like to reexamine that practice, with input from the development community. Fedora is too versatile a product to document so narrowly.

A few considerations come immediately to mind, but please don't limit yourself to the examples:
Modern composited desktops like GNOME and KDE need better graphics hardware than XFCE or MATE. Headless servers would benefit from better NICs or storage controllers, but not require them. Purpose driven virtual machines clearly need fewer resources than the machine that hosts them.

I'm considering system specs at this point, but establishing the roles deployed might aid in targeting more comprehensive documentation. Beyond a basic desktop, what use cases would you like to see us represent?

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