kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 04:06:51PM -0400, Mark Roszko wrote:
> 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.

raised to Pentium IV, ok?

> 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.

I can understand this but, as Lorenzo reported, there are many XPs still
in use and, given you use it behind a firewall and do not use it to
navigate on Internet, how can it possibly harm anyone?

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

ok will add a link for those issues...

> "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.

Ok reworded, check if you think it is better now...

> 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.

ok deleted

lets try it again:

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Common System Requirements (hardware specs):

    - Pentium-compatible PC (Pentium IV, 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: No cards that came before the HD-Graphics, regardless of the wording HD.
        Intel cards that are reported working starts from model HD2000 and higher.

      - 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).
        but check for some issues here:
        http://kicad-pcb.org/help/known-system-related-issues/#_bad_graphics_cards

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.

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Comments?

If you agree we can add this page on the site...

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Marco Ciampa

I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.

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