System requirements

Following are the system requirements for installing, building, and running the RSDK:

• A Baxter Research Robot
• A development workstation capable of running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and ROS Electric, with the following minimum specifications:
  • Intel i5 or above
  • 4GB Memory or above
  • At least 2 GB of free disk space
  • Ethernet port

A list of Ubuntu certified hardware may be found here.

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Known Setups

Below is a list of some development machine setups from other users. ( Note: These are not recommendations, just here for reference.)

Hardware .	Software	Result	Notes
Lenovo ThinkPad X230t	Ubuntu 10.04.04 LTS
Dell Optiplex 390	Ubuntu 10.04.04 LTS	Good
Lenovo ThinkPad W530	Ubuntu 10.04.04 LTS	Good
Lenovo ThinkPad T410s	Ubuntu 10.04.04 LTS	Okay	Lenovo Integrated Display needed to be turned off in the BIOS to get rviz to work.