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System Requirements
« Thread Started on Jan 22, 2011, 1:21pm »

What are the minimum system requirements for Saline OS?

I mentioned it being cool in the "Other Distros" thread on wattOS forums and someone was wondering what they were as that person wants to try it on an old PC.

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Re: System Requirements
« Reply #1 on Jan 22, 2011, 1:28pm »

The oldest machine I have installed Saline OS on is a Celeron M 533 MHz with 256 megabytes of RAM. It runs but not spectacularly well, and with those specifications I would highly recommend using Parole to play music. The recommend minimum is at least a gigahertz processor and 512 megabytes of RAM for Saline OS.

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Re: System Requirements
« Reply #2 on Jan 22, 2011, 1:36pm »

Thanks as usual for the quick response, Anthony, I'll pass that along.

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Re: System Requirements
« Reply #3 on Jan 23, 2011, 8:48pm »

Jan 22, 2011, 1:36pm, scifidude79 wrote:

Thanks as usual for the quick response, Anthony, I'll pass that along.

SciFiDude.....I know you from Peppermint. I like this distro, are you using it yet?

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Re: System Requirements
« Reply #4 on Jan 24, 2011, 12:16am »

Yeah, I've been using it for a few days. (though I'm using Peppermint right now) I have Peppermint OS, wattOS and Saline OS quad-booted with Windows XP on my computer. 8-)

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Re: System Requirements
« Reply #5 on Jan 24, 2011, 10:09am »

Jan 24, 2011, 12:16am, scifidude79 wrote:

Yeah, I've been using it for a few days. (though I'm using Peppermint right now) I have Peppermint OS, wattOS and Saline OS quad-booted with Windows XP on my computer. 8-)

I've dine that before and the constant rebooting is a major pain. now I use VirtualBox 3.12.x, don't use 4.0.0 yet it's way to buggy and caused me to reinstall SalineOS.

I used virtualBox on my old Dell Dimension 1.8 ghz with 768 mg of ram and it worked just fine with windows XP 512 mg of ram in a VM. Now with my new super go fast computer and 4 gig of ram I can run 2 or 3 VMs no sweat and no rebooting.

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Re: System Requirements
« Reply #6 on Jan 24, 2011, 12:05pm »

I can't run Windows in Virtual Box. I play too many games that require real hardware, not virtual hardware. Also, I do 3D art and, unfortunately, I haven't taken to Blender so well, so I'm still using a program in Windows and I need both of my processor cores and as much RAM as I can throw into that, not as much as VB will allow me.

I agree, though, the rebooting can be a pain. But I don't use Windows that much, basically just when I'm playing one of my games or doing 3D art and I usually pick a Linux distro and use that for the day, though sometimes I do switch during the day. The problem is, I can't decide which one I want to use full time, I like all 3 that I have installed. I've tried dozens of distros and these 3 are all keepers, IMO.

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Re: System Requirements
« Reply #7 on Jan 24, 2011, 12:29pm »

I see your problem with windows and the situation with ram. Plus I'm learning that some things just can't be done in VirtualBox as well as they can in my host Debian Squeeze. I've been transferring my tapes to disk and MP3s but in a VM Audacity just can't cope with the delay VirtualBox has.

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Re: System Requirements
« Reply #8 on Jan 24, 2011, 12:47pm »

Games that are graphics intense especially hate VB's graphics card emulation. And, since you can't directly access your graphics card, you're stuck using that. I have a 1GB Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT graphics card, more than I need to run most modern games, yet games won't run in VB because of the stupid virtualizatiion. I also have at least one game that won't run from a virtual hard drive. ::)

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