Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-23 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Marius Schwarz wrote: > no printersupport Uh, you can actually attach a printer directly to a PinePhone, either using the convergence dock or USB C directly. > ATM, i still see a long way to go for Linux on Phones, but Android > didn't do it overnight either. I have been using a PinePhone as my

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-20 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 10/14/21 18:30, Peter Boy wrote: A default installation of Fedora Server Edition occupies about 2.2 GiB of storage and consumes 505 MiB of Ram. An absolute minimum might be 2 G RAM and 5 G storage This pretty much would require a reinstall on upgrade, because during the regular upgrade th

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-19 Thread mkolman
On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 10:57 +0200, Marius Schwarz wrote: > Am 17.10.21 um 22:31 schrieb Robby Callicotte via devel: > > On Sunday, October 17, 2021 3:05:13 PM CDT Dan Čermák wrote: > > > They are also much more intuitive to use for your average user/ > > > newcomer > > > to Linux in contrast to a t

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-19 Thread mkolman
On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 07:33 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >   Hi, > > > So in short the best current scenario is Anaconda booted in text > > mode > > from a USB stick or via PXE with NFS installation source - that > > should > > require the least amount of RAM at installation time. > > > > Still ev

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-19 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 05:23:55PM +0200, mkol...@redhat.com wrote: > As already mentioned, the installation image has grown and in some > scenarios its size can directly impact RAM requirements, as the image > needs to be downloaded and held in RAM at installation size (PXE boot > with HTTP instal

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-19 Thread Marius Schwarz
Am 17.10.21 um 22:31 schrieb Robby Callicotte via devel: On Sunday, October 17, 2021 3:05:13 PM CDT Dan Čermák wrote: They are also much more intuitive to use for your average user/ newcomer to Linux in contrast to a text interface (which will put them off when compared to the Windows or Ubuntu

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-18 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > So in short the best current scenario is Anaconda booted in text mode > from a USB stick or via PXE with NFS installation source - that should > require the least amount of RAM at installation time. > > Still even then, especially with kickstart installations that have > elaborate post sc

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-18 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
I am going to reply to the parent and grandparent post at once, starting with the parent post: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > This conversation is one that seems to happen to computer people as > they age. I remember in the early 1990's that the Sun 4.1 installer > was incredibly bloated and requi

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-18 Thread mkolman
On Sun, 2021-10-17 at 15:56 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 3:36 PM Chris Murphy > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 10:01 PM Kevin Kofler via devel > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I still remember how Red Hat Linux and (IIRC) Fedora Core 1 could > >

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 at 02:20, drago01 wrote: > > > > On Monday, October 18, 2021, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> Is it worth paying hundreds of MBytes of installer space, and the new >> 2 GB minimum RAM to simply install Fedora? I'm not saying "discard >> anaconda". I'm saying "be aware of some v

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-17 Thread drago01
On Monday, October 18, 2021, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Is it worth paying hundreds of MBytes of installer space, and the new > 2 GB minimum RAM to simply install Fedora? I'm not saying "discard > anaconda". I'm saying "be aware of some very real reasons the > installer has gotten so huge". And k

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-17 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 3:36 PM Chris Murphy > wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 10:01 PM Kevin Kofler via devel >> wrote: >>> >>> The Fedora 34 netinst image is still 450 times the size of a floppy! >> >> The top two reasons for this: a significant portion of anacond

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-17 Thread JT
I think an important question we should ask is who is the target user we're thinking about when we consider 'recommendations'. I used to have a pretty clear picture of what 'recommended/required' meant, and then I did some charity/volunteer work in Namibia back in the early 2000s and realized that

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-17 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
Is it worth paying hundreds of MBytes of installer space, and the new 2 GB minimum RAM to simply install Fedora? I'm not saying "discard anaconda". I'm saying "be aware of some very real reasons the installer has gotten so huge". And keep it in mind for your own projects. On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 4

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-17 Thread Robby Callicotte via devel
On Sunday, October 17, 2021 3:05:13 PM CDT Dan Čermák wrote: > They are also much more intuitive to use for your average user/ newcomer > to Linux in contrast to a text interface (which will put them off when > compared to the Windows or Ubuntu installer). Yes, a text interface is > much more resou

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-17 Thread Dan Čermák
Nico Kadel-Garcia writes: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 3:36 PM Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 10:01 PM Kevin Kofler via devel >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> I still remember how Red Hat Linux and (IIRC) Fedora Core 1 could be booted >>> from a floppy (older Red Hat Linux release

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-17 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 3:36 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 10:01 PM Kevin Kofler via devel > wrote: >> >> >> >> I still remember how Red Hat Linux and (IIRC) Fedora Core 1 could be booted >> from a floppy (older Red Hat Linux releases even had a fully functioning >> rescue

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 10:01 PM Kevin Kofler via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > I still remember how Red Hat Linux and (IIRC) Fedora Core 1 could be > booted > from a floppy (older Red Hat Linux releases even had a fully functioning > rescue mode on the floppy, later ones could

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-16 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Marius Schwarz wrote: > Am 14.10.21 um 22:09 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: >> I think that those numbers (20GB+2GB) are quite reasonable for the >> stated purpose of "install and run successfully". I think that people > The smallest device Fedora runs on, will propably be the Pinephone. > >

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-16 Thread Marius Schwarz
Am 14.10.21 um 22:09 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: I think that those numbers (20GB+2GB) are quite reasonable for the stated purpose of "install and run successfully". I think that people The smallest device Fedora runs on, will propably be the Pinephone. ATM..it has 3 GB Ram and a 32 GB

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 04:13:34AM +0200, Michal Schorm wrote: > Thinking about this more, I always get to a question: > "Who are the consumers of that information and what do they actually > use it for?" One consumer is libosinfo. Tools which use libosinfo (of which there are quite a few) will u

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-14 Thread Benson Muite
On 10/15/21 5:13 AM, Michal Schorm wrote: Thinking about this more, I always get to a question: "Who are the consumers of that information and what do they actually use it for?" My personal idea is that the _ recommended _ requirements (of any OS) are seeked by people that 1/ are going to instal

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-14 Thread Michal Schorm
Thinking about this more, I always get to a question: "Who are the consumers of that information and what do they actually use it for?" My personal idea is that the _ recommended _ requirements (of any OS) are seeked by people that 1/ are going to install the system on some hardware on which that

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-14 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 14.10.2021 um 17:24 schrieb Michal Schorm : > > Sigh, it is useless to search for Fedora documentation on google ... > anything but _current_ Docs will be found. Welcome to the club. This has been a nuisance for a long time. I have made several attempts, but so far without response. >

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-14 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 06:14:44PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > I know "feels responsive" is pretty subjective, so, maybe "switching tabs > should be < 0.1 second" (from > https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/). Or, perhaps: better than some threshold for Phoronix T

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-14 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 08:09:45PM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > I think that those numbers (20GB+2GB) are quite reasonable for the > stated purpose of "install and run successfully". I think that people > know and understand that additional resources are required for > additional thi

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-14 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:41:17PM -0400, Chris Murphy wrote: > Only Fedora Workstation edition explicitly states minimum hardware > requirements: "Fedora requires a minimum of 20GB disk, 2GB RAM, to > install and run successfully. Double those amounts is recommended." > https://getfedora.org/en/wo

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-14 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:25 AM Michal Schorm wrote: > > Sigh, it is useless to search for Fedora documentation on google ... > anything but _current_ Docs will be found. > > > Only Fedora Workstation edition explicitly states minimum hardware > > requirements: "Fedora requires a minimum of 20GB

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-14 Thread Michal Schorm
Sigh, it is useless to search for Fedora documentation on google ... anything but _current_ Docs will be found. > Only Fedora Workstation edition explicitly states minimum hardware > requirements: "Fedora requires a minimum of 20GB disk, 2GB RAM, to > install and run successfully. Double those amo

Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-13 Thread Chris Murphy
Hi, Workstation working group was tracking this: #241 Re-revisit Fedora Workstation minimums https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/241 But to answer the questions, I think we need to broaden the conversation, hence this email. Only Fedora Workstation edition explicitly states minimum hardwa