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Manessa

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Registered: 2024-03-22

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Where to view system requirements Devuan

Hello everyone, I have a question. I'm new to Linux, and I can't find the system requirements for Devuan.

ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

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Re: Where to view system requirements Devuan

Well "Devuan" is actually like a warehouse of software rather than a particular distribution so it all depends on which particular setup you want to have. The most recent "excalibur netinstall", which provides a range of distribution choices with the most recent software, will want at least 800 Mb RAM to run and would comfortably install most of its graphical desktop environments on an 8 Gb disk. Though, today one will want at least 20 Gb disk to be somewhat "future proof".

Almost all software is compiled for several architectures, including both 32-bit and 64 architectures. In debian parlance they have names like i386, amd64, armel, armhf, arm64, risc64, ppc64el etc.

The keyword is "Choice".

Devarch

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Registered: 2022-10-03

Posts: 92  

Re: Where to view system requirements Devuan

They are the same as for debian.
They are like
    RAM: 2 GB or more.
    CPU: Dual-core processor of minimum 1GHz clock speed.
    Storage: At least 20GB of disk space.
    USB drive: 8 GB or above.

But it depends on use case. For example, to browse thhe web you cannot live with 2 Gb of RAM. The modern web is broken and resource hungry.
So, it depends.

Last edited by Devarch (Yesterday 22:47:52)