svn commit: r46401 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Eitan Adler wrote:

> Author: eadler
> Date: Wed Apr  1 05:17:40 2015
> New Revision: 46401
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46401
>
> Log:
>  Minimum Hardware Requirements: installation instructions
>
>  reduce the total amount of text and make it more explicit what the minimum and
>  recommend.  Don't include a difference between graphical and non-graphical
>  systems since these days, RAM is cheap.

Most consumer machines still come with less than 8G, and this can be 
read as implying that FreeBSD will not run well with less.  That could 
discourage people from trying FreeBSD.  Even PCBSD recommends a minimum 
of 4G.

I suggest:

   RAM requirements depend on usage.  A minimal FreeBSD system can run in
   64M, but is limited.  1G or 2G of RAM is adequate for small servers.
   If ZFS or desktop environments are used, at least 4G is recommended.