{"id":356,"date":"2020-08-18T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:26:01","slug":"this-is-the-page-title-toplevel-189","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=356","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<title>Hardware Requirements<\/title>\n<p>\nAlthough Linux will install and run on something as\nsmall as a 386\/16 with no hard disk (you <glossary>boot<\/glossary>\nfrom floppies), you cant really\nexpect to run your business on it. When To do useful work when I first started using Linux, you had have to be installed\non a hard disk and have at least 4MB of <glossary>RAM<\/glossary>\nfor text-based applications and 8MB if you are running X-Windows.\nToday, most video cards come with more RAM, and it is likely that you won&#8217;t find a new machine with less than 128MB if not 256MB. With prices today, RAM should no longer be an issue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe amount of hard disk space you need is a completely\ndifferent matter. Its not as easy to come up with a rule of thumb because each\nsite will want to have a different set of applications. The <i>basic<\/i> UNIX\nutilities and programs will fit in less than 20MB. However, there is not much\nyou can do with that. On the other end of the scale, I installed the Caldera\nNetwork Desktop with the Internet Office Suite onto a 500MB <glossary>partition<\/glossary>\ncontaining\na complete RedHat distribution. Today, distributions like\n<a href=\"www.suse.com\">SuSE Linux<\/a> come with up to seven CDs, which will\nobviously take up several <i>gigabytes<\/i> when fully installed. I then had to\nreinstall to make the <glossary>partition<\/glossary>\nlarger because I ran out of space. In the middle\nis my old laptop, on which I had a 100MB <glossary>partition<\/glossary>\nand almost a complete Linux installation (no X-Windows).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMost of the commercial distributions list a\nfew example installations and how much hard disk space you will need. Every\ncommercial product I have seen lists how much space you will need. The products\nthat are bundled with a Linux distribution also tell you how much the OS\nwill\/can take. It is therefore fairly easy to get an <i>idea<\/i> of how much\nspace you will need.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor the most part, if you have a standard PC, Linux\nwill run on it. By &#8220;standard&#8221; I mean that the components are common\nbrands and types, there are no clones and the hardware has been on the market for\nmore than a week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToday, (August 2006) you would be hard pressed to find a new machine with less than 40GB and those are probably close-out models. Therefore, you could end up installing every single package and still a lot of room left over.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLinux is most commonly available for Intel machines.\nHowever, a few commercial versions are available for the DEC Alpha processor.\nThere are also versions for the Motorola 680&#215;0 as well as the PowerPC, SPARC,\nand MIPS (how many am I missing?). The best thing to do is check the Hardware\nHOWTO to see whether the hardware you have is supported.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardware Requirements Although Linux will install and run on something as small as a 386\/16 with no hard disk (you boot from floppies), you cant really expect to run your business on it. When To do useful work when I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-356","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}