[Qgis-user] minimum requirement on windows

Micha Silver micha at arava.co.il
Tue Jun 22 13:10:33 PDT 2010


On 06/22/2010 10:53 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 09:49 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>    
>> Hi all.
>> This post [0], showing very high minimum requirements for a popular proprietary GIS
>> package, prompted me to ask what are the minimum requirements for QGIS on Windows OS:
>> can users tell us what is the minimum setup they use for running QGIS in their normal
>> use?
>> Thanks a lot.
>>      
> I've got a windows virtual machine running QGIS, I could try to keep
> lowering the resources till it stops. However my suspicion on a windows
> box, if you can run Win XP(or 2000) you can run QGIS, there are no other
> requirements. Since we don't rely on directx or other fancy graphics
> stuff and we don't load massive amounts of application into RAM it's
> real barebones.
>
> I guess the other way to put it - who's running QGIS on a netbook?
>    
One student at I seminar some months ago had  1.3 running fairly well on 
a netbook. (Except for the problem of un-resizable windows)
> I would prefer to find the minimum recommended for reasonable experience
> since as I stated above simply being able to run the OS is basically
> enough to run QGIS.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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