Going forward...
To show some examples of general guidance for system requirements:
For Puppy Linux:
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-hXXp://www.puppylinuxfaq.org/first-steps-in-puppy-linux/9-installing-puppy-linux-installing-puppy-linux/21-minimum-hardware.html
(note the "-hXXp")
There are many more pages about it, with more explanations about which actions / tasks a user could
effectively do according to the hardware available.
For Slitaz, not only there are specific minimum requirements, but also a special com32 syslinux module that automatically selects which Live features (not) to load up if the system doesn't meet the minimum requirements for such more-demanding features.
For PartedMagic, according to the available RAM, the user would select a different boot menu option. This is not what we are talking about here, but it is an example of how, in certain situations, having some general guidance about hardware requirements beforehand may be important for the user.
For Mandrive 2011.0 :
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-hXXp://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2011.0_Notes#System_requirements
For pclinuxos LXDE: (down the page to "Hardware requirements")
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-hXXp://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=188
For pclinuxos 2012.2 Xfce: (down the page to "Hardware requirements")
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-hXXp://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=213
I realize that some of those examples are specially relevant when the OS is particularly publishing the support for old computers, and the respective page format is not the same as I suggested here. The above examples are only just that, examples, and possibly not the most adequate way to present them. And of course that additional comments like the ones presented here in this topic are VERY relevant, so they should be taken into consideration too.
Some of those pages mix the OS "features" with the download links with the hardware requirements with screenshots with... I'd suggest not mixing all together, but instead adding links to a "hardware requirements" wiki page where relevant (for example, in the download pages, but let's not jump ahead).