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System requirements for the current release version of Trisquel 11 and their flavors.
Trisquel (Mate)
Default desktop environment with a good level of accessibility.Simple
A computer built in 2010 or newer.Details
CPU
- AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8 GHz)
- Intel Celeron (1.8 GHz)
RAM
- Minimum : 2GB
- Recommended: 4GB or more.
Storage
- 16.1 GB is required to start the installer.[1]
- Minimum of 10GB installing all the system under root partition
- Default partition recipe will setup a root (/) and /home partition, it could take up to 25 GB to give enough room for the system.
Trisquel Mini (LXDE)
For old and small resources computers
Simple
A computer built in 2005 or newer.Details
CPU
- AMD K6
- Intel Pentium II
RAM
- Minimum: 1GB
- Recommended: 2GB or more.
Storage
- 16.1 GB is required to start the installer.[1]
- Minimum of 6GB installing all the system under root partition
- Default partition recipe will setup a root (/) and /home partition, it could take up to 25 GB to give enough room for the system.
Video Card
- Minimum of 32MB of video memory (128MB is recommended for 3D graphics)
Intel Graphic Chip (910GL or better) are recommended to get an average performance on 3D support, some of the latest (2023) Intel Graphics models might require non-free firmware.
NVIDIA Graphics Cards, using the nuveaou driver will provide a basic support for some cards, but a basic 3D acceleration support is restricted to some very specific models on the best scenario.
Starting on Trisquel 11.0, Aramo, there is some work to enable some basic support on previously unsupported ATI/AMD cards. This will not enable any acceleration but will likely recognize the right ratio/resolution for most screens.
Detailed information may be found at h-node.org
Wireless Cards
As a rule of thumb you might like to;- Avoid
- Intel Wireless cards, they mainly require non free firmware
- Realtek, as many (or most) require non-free firmware
- Prefer
- Atheros, as most of them use a free driver (ath9k).
Detailed information may be found at h-node.org
Others
You'll need a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive to install Trisquel from a boot disk. Alternatively, you can install either with a USB flash drive, if the BIOS support to boot with.
