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Hardware requirements

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- All right, let's talk about the type of hardware you need to be able to run and install Linux effectively. These prerequisites are known as system requirements. And they're often used as a guide as oppose to an absolute rule. The most common set of system requirements is defined by any Linux distribution as its fiscal computer hardware requirements. Now, a hardware requirements list is often accompanied by a hardware compatibility list known as an HCL. An HCL is going to list all the tested, compatible, and sometimes, incompatible hardware devices for a certain distro. Most distros have two sets of system requirements. They have minium requirements and recommended requirements. Now with increasing demand for a higher processing power and resources in newer versions of certain distros, these system requirements tend to increase over time. Now, usually developers will publish system requirements for a specific version of…

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