Advice before trying out tryton on a different machine

Support Developer
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so i have a laptop with these specs
cpu celeron
ram 2gb
storage is 32gb ssd
i was thinking of using this machine to learn development with tryton
will i be have issue using these?
how much space does tryton and all its dependency consume?

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I do not think so.

Tryton does not consume so much resource. For example, our docker image it’s just 140MB.
A development environment (with all node dependencies needed from sao) requires at least 1GB

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what linux distro do you recommend? ubuntu?

4

Any distro will do the trick. The one you are most familiar with.

5

As Sergi suggested any distro should work, and the one you are most familiar with will make things easier for you. I have successfully used both Debian and Ubuntu, so yes Ubuntu will work.

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I have ran Tryton on a BeagleBone Black and Raspberry Pi’s, so your specs should be more then enough. I have for example a VM for development with 2GB of ram of which Tryton is using about 4% (80 - 90MB). Sao will need some power for compiling everything, but Tryton itself will run perfectly.

I’m more of an rpm-based guy with Fedora / CentOS / RHEL where CentOS is replaced by RockyLinux. But I’m also using Debian Bullseye at the moment and everything is just the same. Use a Python Virtual Environment and you are good to go. And because Ubuntu is Debian based it will work as well.

If you want to stay with a Debian based system I also recommend to look at ElementaryOS https://elementary.io/ . If you don’t want to purchase it, enter 0 in the box and download it. It’s also Debian based but gives you also a nice desktop interface.