To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer. These prerequisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule
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What is the difference between functional and non-functional requirements?
What is the difference between functional and non-functional requirements in the context of designing a software system?
Give examples for each case.

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How to determine the minimum JRE version and system requirements for my Java application
I have written an application in Java using Eclipse IDE and I now need to know the minimum JRE version that is required to run the application! I know that certain methods are only available under later JREs, but I was wondering what the easiest way…

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Is there a difference between use cases and functional requirements?
I am curious because it seems like everyone has different opinions on the matter. When creating an SRS document, do you need both use cases and functional requirements or just one since use functional requirements expand on use cases?

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MySql Community Server Minimum System Requirements
Can anyone point me to a link or provide me information about the minimum System/Hardware requirements required to run/install MySql Community Server on a windows machine.
Thanks,

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What is minimum system requirements to run electron apps?
I am deciding between options for building native desktop app.
I do not find any documentation for minimum system specs (OS/HW) for runtime of electron apps.
Can you help me out?

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MISRA C++ 2008 Rule 5-2-7 violation: An object with pointer type shall not be converted to an unrelated pointer type, either directly or indirectly
In the following example:
void bad_function()
{
char_t * ptr = 0;
// MISRA doesn't complains here, it allows cast of char* to void* pointer
void* p2 = ptr;
// the following 2 MISRA violations are reported in each of the casts bellow (two…

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Determining recommended system requirements
We recently changed some of our system requirements on a light weight application (it is essentially a thin gui client that connects to a "mainframe" that runs IBM UniVerse). We didn't change our minimum requirements at all, but changed our…

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How do you define minimum server requirements for a web application
I'm developing a web-application in C# - MVC.
I cannot find any decent information about how would i define the recommended server requirements in terms of:
CPU cores and speed
Bandwidth
Memory
Disk space (This one is easy to figure out .. :)
What…

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Evaluate software minimum requirements
Is there a way to evaluate the minimum requirements of a software? I mean, how can I discover, for example, the minimum amount of RAM that my application will need?
Thanks!

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Minimum System Requirements to run Python & tkinter
I'm making a POS system using Tkinter for my Computing Programming Project and for the program analysis we have to talk about the proposed solution and how we'll go about carrying out the program. For this, it's recommended to talk about system…

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How to Set Minimum Container Requirements Using Docker Swarm
In Docker Swarm you can set maximum system requirements like so:
my-service
image: hello-world
deploy:
resources:
limits:
cpus: '2'
memory: 4GB
I have a container that has minimum system requirements of 2 CPU cores and…

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Tensorflow recommended system specifications?
I am getting started with installation of Tensorflow on my RHEL 6.5 box. But it turns out that Tensorflow needs glibc >= 2.17 and the default glibc on rhel 6.5 is 2.12.
I was wondering if anybody could help me with minimum/recommended system…

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Visual Studio 2015 system requirements
What are Visual Studio 2015 system requirements regarding Internet Explorer (IE)?
The respective Microsoft page states that Visual Studio 2013 needs IE 10, yet nothing is mentioned for the 2015 release.

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.NET Framework installation requirements
What are the requirements for all .NET frameworks and their service packs? This is what I need to know for all available frameworks:
.NET Framework prerequisites
What other .NET Frameworks does it require?
For example: .NET Framework 2.0 does not…

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Determing system requirements to run a .NET application
How can I determine the minimum system requirement for a .NET application?
I'd like to be able to determine what I should list as a minimum system requirements to run my application in terms of RAM, CPU, etc.
The application is written in C# and…

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