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

[Alex Mandel]

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