[haiku-development] Re: release notes
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:44:36 +0200 CEST
> On 2009-09-10, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > One thing I was trying to get in there was the minimum system
> > requirements. What's the lowest end system people have tried and
> > gotten ok performance from Haiku? Lowest memory, slowest processor
> > etc.
> I think that's my area of expertise. ;)
>
> Memory:
> 32 MB: Raw image (from a couple of months ago) written to HD wouldn't
> boot, so I suspect R1Alpha1 wouldn't either.
> 64 MB: Raw R1Alpha1 image written to HD boots; ISO R1Alpha1 written
> to
> CD-RW boots into blue desktop and then stops (end of serial log shows
> a couple of 'could not load addon'-lines).
> 128 MB: Raw image boots; ISO not tested yet.
> 192 MB: Raw image boots; ISO boots fine and can be booted into LiveCD
> mode (didn't use it much though and I wouldn't try to start Firefox
> with so little memory left)
>
> Processor:
> My laptop has an Intel Pentium II @ 233 MHz on which Haiku runs fine
> (albeit slow, but that's mostly caused by the amount of memory it's
> got: 64 MB).
Note you can force QEMU to provide a specific amount of RAM...
I recalled booting with 40MB, but that was some months ago.
François.
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