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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I did try to run RedHat 8.0 on my Toshiba 64mb 433Mhz Celeron laptop, and it was totally unusable. I was n00b back then (well, Iīm still a newbie, but atleast I know the basics), I thought after reading comments on Linux how good it was compared to Windows, that RH would run on my laptop. That experiment brought me back to reality, so to speak.
I didnīt switch back to Windows tho. I installed Debian with Xfce, and it runs like a charm. My 3Ghz 1G Ram P4 box is running Mandrake 10.0. For my friend, new to Linux, needed OS for his old AMD K6-2 box which had Win98 before until it got totally trashed, I offered old RedHat 6.2, which runs quite good. Atleast if our hardware canīt run the latest Linux, we can get old versions and still use our comps.
But, Linux apps could use better coding, I got apps running who get totally slow even on P4!