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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With ever progression the requirements for any os goes up. Gnome however, is known to be slow right now compared to the latest KDE, so Id expect that. I wonder if the author has Swap on as it works really well. My experience is the new 2.6 kernel isnt freindly with older hardware compared to the 2.4 series, so things like mandrake 10 id install 2.4, which is what I in fact did on a relatives pc and it ran pretty good. It was a pII with 400mhz. the Killer here is the RAM, as long as you have like 192 your good, hell even 128 will do. Its like my freind who had a celeron 500 mhz. it ran windows 2000 slower than the pII, my guess is exactly cause it only had 64 mb ram.!
Anywheres people installing oses generally aren't joe six pack, its usually their geek freind or the office tech so installing vector linux or any low end thing should be fine. There is used ram out there now a days on ebay since the market atificially inflates SDRAM prices when they technically should be worth dirt by now. Actually if one has a pII id tell them to buy a new comp for 500-600 dollars. They can get an athlon XP cheap as well as a graphic card for a good price.