[debian-edu-commits] [Debian Wiki] Update of "DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Requirements" by WolfgangSchweer

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The "DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Requirements" page has been changed by WolfgangSchweer:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Requirements?action=diff&rev1=2&rev2=3

Comment:
update minimum RAM info (LTSP diskless clients be switched to thin clients on startup, if RAM is less than 320 MiB) 

   * Disk space requirements depend on profiles used, but any disk larger than 25 GiB will be sufficient for a workstation or standalone installation, 30 Gib for a thin-client server and at least 40 GiB on the main server. As usual with disk space on a main-server, it's "the bigger the better". 
   * Thin clients can run on as low as 64 MiB RAM and 133 MHz processor, though 128 MiB RAM and somewhat faster processors are recommended.
    * For running Iceweasel/Firefox and !OpenOffice.org, 128 MiB RAM is a minimum requirement. 
-  * For workstations, diskless workstations and standalone PCs, 800 MHz, 256 MiB RAM are minimum requirements, though 512 or 1024 MiB RAM will perform considerably better. Just a faster CPU will speed things up. 
+  * For workstations, diskless workstations and standalone PCs, 800 MHz, 320 MiB RAM are minimum requirements, though 512 or 1024 MiB RAM will perform considerably better. Just a faster CPU will speed things up. 
    * Swapping over the network is automatically enabled; the swap size is 32 MiB, and if you need more you can tune this by editing /etc/ltsp/nbdswapd.conf on tjener to set the SIZE variable. Please ''tune up the swap size'' either locally on the PC or on the server. 
     * If your diskless workstations have hard drives, it is recommended to use them for swap as it is a lot faster than network swapping. 
-   * On workstations with little RAM the spell checker can cause !OpenOffice.org to hang if the swap space is too small. Then the system administrator has to disable the spell checker on !OpenOffice.org or students have to kill !OpenOffice.org, resulting in loss of work. Enabling at least 512 MiB swap on a 256 MiB RAM workstation solves this, and the spell checker runs smoothly. 
+   * On workstations with little RAM the spell checker can cause !OpenOffice.org to hang if the swap space is too small. Then the system administrator has to disable the spell checker on !OpenOffice.org or students have to kill !OpenOffice.org, resulting in loss of work. Enabling at least 512 MiB swap on a 320 MiB RAM workstation solves this, and the spell checker runs smoothly. 
   * Laptops have the same requirements as for workstations since they are just movable workstations.
  
  == Hardware known to work ==