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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@Mark
you can't keep things on the kernel: normal users don't know what a kernel is! They're pointing at their screen and say "This is my Linux." or "This is my Windows."
They don't care what makes it slow.
And normal users don't like to hack to speed up any OS. And I agree that Linux need better coding and usability, some examples:
When I copy a text on OpenOffice via the context menu why can't I insert in Mozilla Composer via the context menu?
Why don't I have a universal installer service? I don't like to bother about 24 libraries that are missing.
I use Mandrake 8.2 for my webserver @home and I tried to upgrade to Mandrake 9.2...but the KDE 3 was so buggy that I returned to Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 2...