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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Something they has needed to be said for awhile. Look, I love GNOME, but on my eMac with Debian, it's slower and takes more memory than Mac OS X while doing less. That is pretty lame and I definately hear you on GNOME Terminal, it is VERY slow. I see the GNU/Linux niche being in performing well on low-end systems, with benefit to third world countries and budget conscious companies, but at the current rate it just isn't happening. Windows is *so* more responsive than GNU/Linux at the moment and I don't care whether the blame lies with X or GTK or the language, all I care about is that it is, and so does every other consumer. Look at an old NeXT system, or look at the Contiki OS and how much they do with so little, it's embarrassing. Yes, times have changed and the level of complexity has increased, but people shouldn't need a 1.5GHz system with 512MB RAM to decently browse the web, e-mail, type up letters and listen to music.