Several developers over the past couple of years are taking steps to alert users what requirements they expect and support for the distro builds they do for Puppy users. I have always viewed this as one of the positive additions in developer assistance for user awareness. Excellent.
Even though many do this now as a matter of course, the manner in which it is present is different one PUP builder to another.
I propose and offer an idea that takesthe guesswork out of information offer to the user and present the user a common table that developers can use for every distro they produce. This makes something consistent for users to look to as they insure that they are testing or using a PUP on platforms that the developer intend as minimum.
A Sample Form for developers
Note that values seen at each line of the form, below, are fictitious. A developer would modify to match what they believe to reflect good distro use. This is a sample form to be modified to present useful information to users.
- Supported Minimum System Requirements
- CPU: Pentium III 500 MHz or higher processor (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or higher or any AMD64 or Intel64 processor recommended)
RAM: 384MB physical RAM (512 GB recommended)
Disk Space: 1GB for a frugal/full installation (more recommended as packages may be added)
Sound and Graphics Card: Most modern cards are supported
Live Boot media: DVD
- CPU: Pentium III 500 MHz or higher processor (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or higher or any AMD64 or Intel64 processor recommended)