3.2:     System requirements

Introduction

The following are minimum and recommended hardware requirements for installing MEPIS Linux 7.0. Keep in mind the following:

• Minimum specifications are only what is required for install. You will get poor performance from a system with minimum specifications.
• Hard drive space directly correlates to the number of files you can store and additional programs you can install.
• More RAM will allow you to run more programs at once, and will make MEPIS Linux more responsive.
• You can expect MEPIS Linux 7.0 to perform approximately as fast as a clean install of Windows XP® on the same hardware.

Minimum specifications

MEPIS Linux-32

• Intel Pentium II or AMD k6-2 processor
• 128 MB RAM
• 2.5 GB free hard drive space
• CDROM drive

MEPIS Linux-64

• AMD Athlon64, Athlon64-FX, Athlon64-X2, Opteron, Sempron64, Turion64, or Intel Core 2 Duo desktop, Core 2 Duo mobile, Pentium4 Prescott with EM64T, PentiumD with EM64T
• 192 MB RAM
• 3.0 GB free hard drive space
• CDROM drive

antiX MEPIS Linux

• Pentium II or AMD
• 96 MB RAM, will work with 64MB plus swap
• 2.0 GB free hard drive space
• CDROM drive

Recommended specifications

• Intel Pentium4, AMD Athlon XP, (or 64 bit processor for MEPIS Linux-64)
• 512 MB RAM
• 20 GB free hard drive space

Optional specifications

A graphics card capable of handling 3D window managers (see Section 9.5):

• NVIDIA graphics card with official NVIDIA driver
• ATI graphics card with xorg radeon driver
• Intel graphics card with xorg driver

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