Hi, QGIS will run fine on machines like that. I have used it a bit on my machine at home, which has similar specs, although I'm not running a big desktop environment like Gnome or KDE. Some aspects of the performance are substantially better than on a high spec Windows machine at my work, where the antivirus is a real problem ;)
Of course, higher specs are always better (RAM can be extremely cheap these days and can make a big difference), and if you're going to be using large and complicated datasets you'll want to pay attention to how you manage your data. Regards, Alister > Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:57:15 -0500 (CDT) > From: "Proctor, Nathanael" <nproc...@tamu.edu> > To: Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: [Qgis-user] QGIS running on RHEL 5 Thin Client Network > Message-ID: > <449466618.3214000.1345154235833.javamail.r...@neo.tamu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hello QGIS users group, > I am looking for details about the capabilities of running QGIS on thin > clients running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (64 bit currently > version 5 soon to upgrade to 6). > Our thin clients have: > 1.5GHz processor > > 1GB disk space > 896MB ram > > My understanding is that the ArcGIS requirements are: > 2.2GHz processor > 2.4GB disk space > 2GB ram > Which exceeds our thin client capacity. > > Does anyone know the min and recommended requirements for QGIS to run on a > thin client? > Final question does anyone have a side-by-side functionality comparison of > ArcGIS 10 and QGIS 1.8? > Our company currently is licensed for ESRI ArcGIS 10 but this is using > Windows Desktops. If QGIS can run on our current RHEL 5 64 Bit thin client > network we would like to add it to the system. > > Thanks > > Nathanael Proctor > nproc...@tamu.edu _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user