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On 08/24/2014 03:17 AM, Heinz Schmitz wrote:
> Don't forget to mention the hardware requirements for 14.04.
> Me thinks that a single core CPU and a medium class graphics
> card won't make the user happy with it. 
> Wouldn't it be friendly to the resources of our world if at least 
> some software was tended to as long as the hardware lived?

I think it will work just fine on a single core CPU with an older
graphics card.  Unity and Gnome 3 run fine on my old netbook that's
single core Atom.  So no worries there, except for people disliking
Unity itself.