Linked by Bob Marr on Thu 10th Jun 2004 05:48 UTC
Consider these memory requirements for Fedora Core 2, as specified by Red Hat: Minimum for graphical: 192MB and Recommended for graphical: 256MB Does that sound any alarm bells with you? 192MB minimum? I've been running Linux for five years (and am a huge supporter), and have plenty of experience with Windows, Mac OS X and others. And those numbers are shocking -- severely so. No other general-purpose OS in existence has such high requirements. Linux is getting very fat.
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It is not all that bad, it is just about choice. For example, I installed Libranet (which is quite user-friendly) on 128MB and 64MB 400MHz machines. With IceWM and Opera that works quite well, and it isn't really more difficult to use than e.g. Win9x.
Yep, I agree that KDE and Gnome are bloated these days.