[HOT] Advised computer requirements

[Reinier Battenberg]

Hi,

I would surely recommend (k)ubuntu. All mentioned software packages are 
available through the package manager so you dont have to visit a gazillion 
websites to download the latest version, if you have multiple computers to 
install, and not a lot of bandwidth, you can cache software & updates, no 
virusses, no seperate drivers to install, it works, 

And its free.

what else can you wish for?

rgds,

Reinier


> Hi Brian,
> 
> Ideally all key HOT software should/can run decently on a constrained setup 
- like a 4-5 year old PC with Windows that has one processor and only 512 MB 
memory. This is suboptimal of course, but even with this setup you should be 
able to say... use JOSM to download a *small* chunck of OSM data and edit it 
and upload, use GPSBabel to convert GPS data to GPX, and you should be able to 
import a small amount (like under 50 MB extract) of osm data into postgis and 
use basic functions of QGIS.
> 
> That said, if you are getting a new machine, a good setup would be 2 cores, 
2-4 GB Ram.
> 
> Beyond that we'd have to know more about your aspirations because specs must 
increase drastically with the amount of OSM data you wish to handle at any 
time.
> 
> Dane
> 
> On Jul 8, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Brian Wolford wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was wondering if anybody out there could help me out real quick with 
suggested system requirements for computers running the softwares on the 
HOT_kit. Postgres, postGIS, Qgis, ect...
> > 
> > RAM, disk space, CPU details...
> > 
> > What specifications would be adequate and which would be ideal.
> > 
> > If anyone out there is familiar with these issues I'd appreciate it.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Brian Wolford
> > 
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rgds,

Reinier Battenberg
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