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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Linux is not getting fat. Fedora, or any other distro with those requirements are. Keep the word Linux in context with the kernel and we are a lot less troubled. If you choose to run KDE/GNOME2 and then add GDM, and all the bells and whistles (gdesklets for example)... expect to use some ram up.
Secondly, why should users have to install Slackware, Debian or Gentoo just to get adequate speed? Those distros are primarily targeted at experienced users -- the kind of people who know how to tweak for performance anyway. The distros geared towards newcomers don't pay any attention to speed, and it's giving a lot of people a very bad impression.
I still don't understand what the giant obsession with pleasing everyone is. I think there is a distinction in making a distro for 'newcomers', and just making a user-friendly distribution. Just because Mandrake is easy to install doesn't mean it is made for newcomers. Windows isn't the Microsoft OS for newcomers, it's just damn easy to use period. I think the same flies for easy-to-run Linux.