[Qgis-user] Why can I not find system requirements of QGIS

[Jonathan Moules]

But might it not be worth having a page that says this somewhere? If a user
is looking for specs and can't find them, I posit they're not likely to
think "maybe the specs are so low it doesn't matter". I mean, some might,
but others might think "they're probably very high and specialised".

I definitely think its worth having a page on the wiki somewhere that gives
some basic guidance on the issue. Alex's specs look fairly good for a
"minimum" spec. There's no reason there can't be a caveat "but it'll
probably work on slower machines".

You could also include some suggestions for "recommended" specs if the user
is going to do tasks that are RAM heavy or processor heavy (with examples
of what those tasks are).
Just a thought.

Jonathan



On 7 September 2012 00:01, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:

> On 09/06/2012 03:45 PM, Proctor, Nathanael wrote:
> > Does anyone know the minimum system requirements for QGIS? I have
> searched the web and the user group but have turned up nothing.
> > I am looking for the following details:
> > Hardware requirements:
> > CPU Speed
> > Processor
> > Memory/RAM
> > Display Properties
> > Disk Space
> > Video/Graphics Adapter
> > 64 bit Linux Server version
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nathanael Proctor
> > nproctor at tamu.edu
> >
>
> This comes up every few months, and the reason you don't see it is
> because we don't know the minimum specs. QGIS is known to run on just
> about any machine with Windows XP+, Any modern Linux (Ubuntu/Debian,
> Fedora/Red Hat, OpenSuse, Arch, Gentoo, etc), and Mac OS X. If you can
> run those OS you can run QGIS.
>
> Now if you have a specific Linux Server in mind and don't want to
> compile yourself - then your limited to packages that are listed on the
> Downloads page (Which is most of what I mentioned above).
>
> Do you have any more specific questions?
>
> To give a ballpark, I would say anything P4 or newer chip wise, 512 MB
> ram and up, any video card, 200 MB of disk. There are a few issues with
> dialogs to big on netbooks but we're trying to fix that so 800x600 might
> be stretch but 1024x768 is no problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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