[HOT] Advised computer requirements

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Reinier,

We actually have a package with everything downloaded already to
install.  This is currently a Windows set-up but that is usually what
people show up with.

It would be good to get an offline set-up that worked with Ubuntu too though.

-Kate

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Reinier Battenberg
<reinier.battenberg at mountbatten.net> wrote:
> 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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