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In this video we review the minimum system requirements for the Fedora 11 release Code Name Leonidas. He happened to be a king of the ancient Greek state of Sparta. Fedora 11 is built for a wonderful variety of architectures as described in the Fedora Wiki, it supports various Power PC architectures, that's PPC. Even that installed on the Playstation 3. Of course, it also supports 32-bit and 64-bit CPUs. As the big advantage of Linux is how it works on the simplest architectures, this course is based on the installation and configuration of Fedora 11 on a regular x86 32-bit system. Fedora 11 requires an Intel Pentium processor or better, and is optimized for Pentium IV and later CPUs. The minimum requirements for text and graphical installations are pretty nominal, and we recommend that you have a system with at least 256 megabytes of RAM and if you want to install everything from the Fedora CDs or DVD you'll need at least 9 gigabytes of free hard drive space. So far so good. It all seems pretty nominal until you realize the number of installations being created on Virtual machines today. For example, if you're told to configure 32 Virtual Machines on a Server gigabytes of RAM no longer seem like a lot of memory. As we'll be working with graphical Desktop environments I'll configure a Fedora 11 system with 512 megabytes of RAM. For this course I've created a Fedora 11 system on a VMware Server machine hosted on a Server, available from www.vmware.com, VMware Server is, in my opinion, and this is just my opinion, the best option for this purpose. It supports relatively easy installations of various operating systems including Fedora on various Linux distributions as well as on Microsoft Windows. It supports Snapshots, and that's great because if I change too many things and can't remember what I did I can easily restore the original configuration through the Snapshot. I've installed Fedora 11 on VMware Server in full screen mode to support these videos but, of course, there are alternatives. For example, Parallels Workstation can be installed not only on Microsoft and Linux operating systems but also on Macintosh operating systems. If you're a stickler for Open Source there are a couple of options. The Kernel-based Virtual Machine, as well as XEN can take full advantage of the latest in CPU technology, in other words, when you hear the words Dual Core and Quad Core with respect to CPUs, KVM, and Xen, use those to support virtualization. One more alternative that's completely Open Source is Sun's Virtualbox Open Source Edition. Thank you, and on to the main videos.