IMHO most of users use GUI with KDE4 or GNOME, so default requirements should reflect those. But there should be also advanced view showing text based requirements and requirements for minimalistic GUI. This is not applicable for most of people, because vast majority just accept defaults... :-) Regards, Vojtěch Zeisek Dne Po 2. listopadu 2009 23:56:31 Thomas Schulte napsal(a):
At the last IRC meeting (on Saturday, October 31) we talked about the minimum hardware requirements for openSUSE:
http://www.novell.com/en-us/products/opensuse/sysreqs.html
We agreed that the current reqs are not that appropriate anymore. Refilwe Seete had the idea of splitting the definitions into different parts like "GUI-based" and "CLI-based" requirements. That's basically a very good idea but we have to keep in mind that GUI shouldn't be generalized because IceWM or LXDE are not as consumptive as KDE4 or GNOME. And, of course, we shouldn't blow up the definition too much because of the needed clarity.
There could be a basic overview, just splitted into the mentioned two base parts and a more detailed view for advanced users. Another chance would be to ask the community via the forums about their hardware experiences.
Finally we thought that it would be a good idea to bring the discussion to this mailing list to get more opinions and proposals.
What do you think about this topic? Any suggestions?
Thomas -- Vojtěch Zeisek http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~zeisek/ Jabber: vojta.sc@njs.netlab.cz ICQ: 273-557-509 Skype: vojta.sc