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Qubes OS 4.0 has been released

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143 points andrewdavidwong | 1 comments | 28 Mar 18 17:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.928s | source
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craftyguy ◴[28 Mar 18 22:11 UTC] No.16702478[source]▶
Now that most VMs are fully virtualized now on 4.x, how much RAM and disk space do you need in order to have a usable system? The 'minimum requirements' they list of 4GB RAM and 32GB hdd wouldn't be enough to run more than a small handful of VMs.
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mseri ◴[28 Mar 18 23:20 UTC] No.16702990[source]▶
With 8Gb of RAM I have been happily using Qubes 4 in my work workstation since rc2. I suggest to use the mirage firewall image [1] to save aound a Gb of RAM

The fedora 27 images can easily reach 5Gb of use under heavy load, but in gneneral I have pretty good performances and I usually have a couple of throwaway VMs and the main work VM running and dealing with web, co pilations of various sort and editing.

[1]: https://github.com/talex5/qubes-mirage-firewall

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1. craftyguy ◴[28 Mar 18 23:56 UTC] No.16703250[source]▶
Why use Fedora for images and not something leaner, like Arch or Alpine Linux? (just examples, there are others too)
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