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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BeOS wasn't cool for no good reason. BeOS can make 6 year old hardware feel fast.
What is the solution for Linux? Copy everything that BeOS does. Run the legacy kernel on top of the L4 micro kernel. Have all the desktop features use the micro kernel and multi-threading directly.
Just a thought. Oh, and before you say it, micro kernels will make a difference in this case. Why? Look at BeOS driver management. Drag and drop.