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unix
07-26-2006, 03:08 PM
Recommended minimum system requirements

i have 256 MB - but kde makes (graphical) crash- i think minimal ram must be :

Pentium Pro or higher (686)
500MB Ram
4GB of free Hard Drive space (Either partition, or entire disk) or more!!
marc
07-26-2006, 03:43 PM
Why are people asking for minimal requirements?
Just try to install and see for yourself if it works!
That`s the best way.

Ii got 256 MB of RAM and KDE runs very smoothly.
unix
07-26-2006, 05:26 PM
i have 256 MB RAM, but kde makes graphical crash-
maybe my computer is light. pIII 730 MHz hewlett-packard
marc
07-26-2006, 06:04 PM
Hello again

Well, I got 733MHz too [my other machine] and it runs smoothly.
TerryP
07-26-2006, 08:00 PM
500Mhz p3, 384mb RAM works faster then Windows. Never a single crash (HP Vectra)
unix
07-26-2006, 09:17 PM
linux + kde -crash.
pcbsd + kde -crash.
i think that my HP Vectra needs only microsoft windows xp.

or text based unix/linux
TerryP
07-26-2006, 11:17 PM
My Vectra's about a <= 1999 Office rig, how olds yours?
marc
07-26-2006, 11:23 PM
linux + kde -crash.
pcbsd + kde -crash.
i think that my HP Vectra needs only microsoft windows xp.

or text based unix/linux

You probobly have some unsupported vcard. Well, it`s not supported by the unices, only Win.
T-Keith
07-27-2006, 12:31 AM
Why are people asking for minimal requirements?
Just try to install and see for yourself if it works!
That`s the best way.


The same reason almost every piece of computer software lists minimum specs:
So they know if they should spend the time downloading it, burning a CD, installing it, messing with it, ect. Especially if it isn't your computer or don't have broadband.
marc
07-27-2006, 12:44 AM
The same reason almost every piece of computer software lists minimum specs:
So they know if they should spend the time downloading it, burning a CD, installing it, messing with it, ect. Especially if it isn't your computer or don't have broadband.

OK, but you don`t have the confidence, that the system will run for you, even after reading specs. It`s just - almost always - inaccurate information.

Testing Testing Testing!
unix
07-27-2006, 08:05 PM
My Vectra's about a <= 1999 Office rig, how olds yours?

vectra VL400.DT -

I'dont now- just now is normal- maybe my monitor and electical problem. I chance something..
heinrich
08-01-2006, 10:14 AM
But what chipset beside your VGA-card?
Kelmos26
08-22-2006, 01:37 PM
I can't remember the exact cpu clock speed but it worked perfectly. I turned off almost all the decorative features of kde...
Ralph_Ellis
08-22-2006, 02:14 PM
I don't want to mess up your system but you could try going into your bios setup program. Most have an option to go to the very basic "safe" system defaults. Once you do this. most systems will start up and run albeit more slowly. Then you can gradually turn things on until you see the culprit. On my laptop, I have to install PCBSD with LBA turned off but run it with LBA turned on. On my desktop, I have to tone down the video card settings until I get the nvidia drivers installed.
Ralph Ellis
g0lem
08-23-2006, 08:51 AM
marc is right. i remember the days of my cyrix686 (yeah, right!), 32 megs of ram, and, the cherry on top, a voodoo (1), and i managed to play unreal tournament on it and got 18-20 fps average. no, wait, it was after that, with a p166 mmx, and ut minimal spec were something like p100 48ram.
now, the point is: when you see somewhere minimal specifications, that means that it will run. period. you won't enjoy it, you won't even see clearly some things, but it will work. so, if you really want some minimal spec, than follow the target platform. for example, the kernel was built for i486. you also want gui, so consider that kde was compiled for i586 (if i'm not wrong).
there... minimal system specifications... and, as marc said, test it. the worse that will happen is crashing your system to the point of installing win and enjoying their crashes... i dunno :P
marc
08-23-2006, 12:04 PM
Yes, that`s right.
But I am recommending testing only for an average users, not for the "total newbies", so I assume, that "unix" [author of this post] is a newbie and thus he can`t test his HW with PC-BSD by himself.
TerryP
08-23-2006, 08:03 PM
PC-BSD kernal config is for i686, the 486/586 part was commented out if I recall.

If this is actually an improvement I don't know, the only time I see a noticable boost is from compiling a custom kernel /w minimal HW support.
g0lem
08-24-2006, 07:28 AM
if it were to be compiled for i686, then it wouldn't have worked on a p3 system...
GENERIC shows all three options unmarked, not PCBSDv1.2, true.
antik
08-24-2006, 08:34 AM
if it were to be compiled for i686, then it wouldn't have worked on a p3 system...
GENERIC shows all three options unmarked, not PCBSDv1.2, true.

Since Pentium PRO all intel processors are 686. AMD started production of 686 compatible processors with Athlon line.

Peentium 2 is based on Pentium PRO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro) technology and got nothing in common with older Pentium, except MMX instruction set- it is actually RISC processor with 386 compatibility emulation.