Pedigree

h1. Foster

The Foster release is the first release of Pedigree, representing a year and 10 months of work on the project. Feedback from the Foster release will be used to improve the system for its next release.

Foster can be thought of as a public beta: you can expect things to go wrong, but we consider it stable enough to be publicly available.

*System Requirements*

* A CPU equivalent to or better than a Pentium 4

* At _least_ 64 MB of RAM - you will find Pedigree runs out of memory fairly quickly (and halts the system) as the caches fill up in only 64 MB of RAM

* An IDE CD drive (or SATA with IDE emulation)

*Downloading Foster*

Foster is available for download as a CD image (ISO file). This is a live CD with the ability to work on a virtual hard disk and try Pedigree without being able to accidentally corrupt important data on physical hard disk drives.

You can obtain the disk image in 3 formats:

* http://www.pedigree-project.org/releases/download.php?file=pedigree-foster.iso - 130 MB

* http://www.pedigree-project.org/releases/download.php?file=pedigree-foster.tar.gz - 37 MB

* http://www.pedigree-project.org/releases/download.php?file=pedigree-foster.tar.bz2 - 30 MB

For verification of your download, obtain either the "md5sums file":http://www.pedigree-project.org/releases/md5sums or the "sha1sums file":http://www.pedigree-project.org/releases/sha1sums.

Don't forget to check the [[Quick_Reference|Quick Reference]] page to find out how to use some of Pedigree's features.

*Reporting Problems*

Should you run into problems, please sign up for an account on http://www.pedigree-project.org/ and create a new issue in the issue tracker. If that does not work, feel free to contact the Pedigree team directly in #pedigree on irc.freenode.net.