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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

I really think Pentium compatible is horrible terminology ever since
Intel absolutely destroyed the name and now theres old generation I3s
rebranded as Pentiums.

Also a Pentium 3 probably can't be used with any of the required video cards.


I personally would remove Windows XP. It is a dead and unsupported OS.
We should not encourage people keeping their botnet computer and
supporting issues they may have.



Regarding Radeon cards, there are issues:
http://kicad-pcb.org/help/known-system-related-issues/#_bad_graphics_cards


"pre-HD" is also flawed for Intel cards as in the case of the broken
4500 GMA theres a "M" and "HD" version released simultaneously. Needs
to be reworded to mean no cards that came before the HD-Graphics
series rather than Intel's previous HD suffixing.


I would keep python off because its no longer an system thing and just
general userland stuff. Also its "recommended" not "required" to run
kicad.


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 08:53:32AM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote:
>> Apart from reporting problems on this or that combination of graphic
>> libraries and/or platforms and/or OS, I think that is missing a page with
>> the minimum requirements, like this:
>>
>> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/system-requirements/
> [...]
>
> I thank you all for you reports on use of KiCad on older hw, but
> please try to understand what I am trying to ask here.
>
> I just want to compile a _reasonable_ system-requirements list,
> nothing more, nothing less.
>
> Then, take from the LibreOffice site, we can have:
>
> --------------------
>
> Common System Requirements (hardware specs):
>
>     - Pentium-compatible PC (Pentium III, Athlon or more-recent system recommended);
>
>     - 512 MB RAM (1024 MB RAM recommended);
>
>     - Up to 500 MB available hard disk space;
>
>     - 1280x1024 resolution (higher resolution recommended), with at least 16K colors.
>
>     - Graphic card with at least OpenGL 2.0, with hardware shaders. Check
>       the opengl specs of the card:
>
>       - Intel: Intel cards are reported working from model HD2000 and higher.
>         No pre-HD models.
>
>       - NVidia: from NVIDIA support page: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nv_ogl2_support.html
>         NVIDIA support for OpenGL 2.0 begins with the Release 75 series of drivers.
>         GeForce FX (NV3x), GeForce 6 Series (NV4x), NV3xGL-based Quadro FX and NV4xGL-based
>         Quadro FX GPUs, and all future NVIDIA GPUs support OpenGL 2.0.
>
>       - Ati: should work any modern Radeon chip even in the APU (GPU in the main processor).
>
> Common System Requirements (software specs):
>
>       - wxwidgets 3.0.2
>
>       - wxpython 3.0.1
>
>       - See: http://kicad-pcb.org/help/known-system-related-issues/ for
>         software specific issues.
>
> Specific System Requirements
>
>     Windows
>     Apple Mac OSX
>     GNU/Linux
>     Other OSes
>
> Windows
>
> The software and hardware prerequisites for installing KiCad on a Windows
> system are as follows:
>
>     Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7,
>     Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, or Windows 10;
>
> Apple - Mac OS X
>
> The software and hardware prerequisites for installing on a Apple Mac OS
> X computer are as follows:
>
>     Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) or higher;
>
> GNU/Linux
>
> The software and hardware prerequisites for installing on Linux are as
> follows:
>
>     Any modern Linux distro with OpenGl 2.0 or higher elabled
>     graphics should go. For example Linux Ubuntu 12.04 or higher.
>
> Android/Linux
>
> The Android/Linux platform is actually NOT supported.
>
> Other OSes
>
> Other systems (notably Unix *BSD) may be fully working but are actually
> not ufficially supported.
>
> All platforms:
>
> - For certain features of the software - but not most - Python is required.
>   Python is notably required for enable scripting.
>
> ---------------------
>
> Comments?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
>
> Marco Ciampa
>
> I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
>
> +------------------------+
> | GNU/Linux User  #78271 |
> | FSFE fellow       #364 |
> +------------------------+
>
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Mark