#647 home page linking to wrong address for system requirements
Closed: Won't fix / Can't fix 5 years ago Opened 7 years ago by nicklevinson.

This appears on the GetFedora home page, when I was looking for Fedora 25: "To learn more about . . . details such as system requirements, see the official documentation." I did not find the system requirements in the linked-to destination for "official documentation". However, I found them on a download page.


This seems a doc issue to me, but I found the requirements there:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Welcome_to_Fedora_.html#hardware_overview

We are linking to the generic document, which has more informations. Indeed we say "to learn more about..."
Linking just to the system requirements seems a bit poor to me. If you are not opposed I'd close this issue as a wontfix.

Metadata Update from @robyduck:
- Issue close_status updated to: Won't fix / Can't fix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

7 years ago

I'm reopening. I recently downloaded F26 and had the same problem as with F25. I forgot you had provided a link here, but users shouldn't have to look for this bug report page to find system requirements and that link is broken anyway (yielding error 404).

For F26, the getfedora.org home page offers F26 and links for system requirements to https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/index.html, but I couldn't find the system requirements there, in the table of contents or by searching for strings. Googling didn't uncover them, either.

It's common in deciding whether to adopt a software program, before getting it, to look up whether the platform we already have will accommodate what we're thinking of getting. For example, one FOSS OS requires 4GB RAM and I bought laptops specifically for that. I don't mind other information being on the same page, but system requirements (and any other info to be included with them) should be no more than a single click from the page offering the product, and it should be that way for every product, version, edition, spin, etc. It saves us the trouble of downloading something and writing it to optical discs only to find we don't have the hardware for it.

Thanks.

Metadata Update from @nicklevinson:
- Issue status updated to: Open (was: Closed)

6 years ago

The correct url should be https://docs.fedoraproject.org/f26/release-notes/welcome/Hardware_Overview.html AFAIK. That should be stable with the f26 changing to something appropriate as time goes on.

There is conversation about putting in a /current to make urls like this easier.

I'm guessing this is referring to the text in https://getfedora.org/en/server/download/.

The current website, I believe, is going to the correct location.

It probably does make sense to have it directly go to the specs page (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/f27/release-notes/welcome/Hardware_Overview.html).

Metadata Update from @sijis:
- Issue tagged with: docs, getfedora.org

6 years ago

Upon looking at this closer, I think the way this is worked and linked to is correct.

Please re-open this issue if it is not addressed.

Metadata Update from @sijis:
- Issue close_status updated to: Won't fix / Can't fix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

5 years ago

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