| Distribution |
Hardware Requirements |
Comments |
| Caldera eDesktop |
HD - Minimum is about 600 MB |
| Mandrake v7.1 (latest version 08-2002 is 8.2) |
System requirements include:
CPU Intel Pentium and compatible processor (Pentium/MMX/PRO/II/Celeron/III, AMD K6/K6-2, Cyrix 6x86/M-II), 32 MB RAM required, 64 MB recommended for X Windows system. 500 MB disk space minimum, 1.5 GB+ recommended. CD-ROM drive required. |
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| SUSE v8.0 |
Intel: 486DX to PentiumŪ 4;
AMD: Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP
Cyrix
IBM
286er, 386er and 486er without a coprocessor are not supported. A minimum of 64 MB are required for the installation with YaST2. The minimum installation in text mode is possible with 48 MB (the free installation support does not cover this minimum installation). 400 MB to more than 3 GB (Personal Edition) or 6 GB (Professional Edition) for full installation
2 GB or more recommended. SuSE Linux comes with drivers for all common cards, including the following
ATI: Radeon 7500/8500, FireGl 8700/8800
Matrox: G450/G550
nVidia: GeForce 2/3, nForce |
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| Slackware |
Since its first release in April of 1993, the Slackware Linux Project has aimed at producing the most "UNIX-like" Linux distribution out there. Slackware complies with the published Linux standards, such as the Linux File System Standard. We have always considered simplicity and stability paramount, and as a result Slackware has become one of the most popular, stable, and friendly distributions available. Apparently Slackware will run on 16MB RAM and 500 MB hard disk |
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| Debian (v3.0r0) |
You must have at least 12MB of memory and 110MB of hard disk space. For a minimal console-based system (all standard packages), 250MB is required. If you want to install a reasonable amount of software, including the X Window System, and some development programs and libraries, you'll need at least 400MB. For a more or less complete installation, you'll need around 800MB. To install everything available in Debian, you'll probably need around 2 GB. Actually, installing everything doesn't even make sense, since some packages conflict with others |
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