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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This seems like a good place to ask -- my company might be distributing our new show control app as part of a custom Linux install CD. We'd like to have a Linux distro that (a) can be installed by someone who doesn't know a thing about Linux, other than "put the CD in the drawer, reboot, click Next until it's done", (b) auto-recognizes all reasonably recent (<5 years old hardware) and auto-configures it (including networking), and (c) Runs as snappy as possible -- an ugly fast GUI would be preferable to a pretty, sluggish API. (Our customers previously ran our app under BeOS, and they put a premium on responsiveness) It would also be nice (but not strictly required) if it had the capability to run directly from the CD, and if it didn't install a bunch of esoteric extra stuff that won't be needed. Any recommendations regarding distros to try for this?