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n3tw0rk5
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Arm based distro

Postby n3tw0rk5 » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:31 am

Ok noob post so be gentle.

Would Inkscape work on a arm based distro or is it x86 only?

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tomh
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Re: Arm based distro

Postby tomh » Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:59 am

Just checked the Debian package archive: http://packages.debian.org/sid/inkscape and it has builds for x86 and Arm, and more... So yes.
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Re: Arm based distro

Postby n3tw0rk5 » Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:09 am

Cool, what are the minimum memory requirements to run inkscape?
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Re: Arm based distro

Postby brynn » Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:05 pm

I haven't been able to find any place where minimum requirements are listed. In my experience, you can run Inkscape on 2 gb RAM or less, but it's pretty slow-going. I would suggest 3 or 4 gb.

Inkscape is due to have a new and apparently much faster rendered, sometime next year. I don't know if that faster renderer will cause Inkscape to perform better on systems with 2 or lower gb RAM? I would guess that it will. But on the other hand, 2 gb is kind of low these days anyway.
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