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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Dude, Gentoo Linux running KDE 3.2.2, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla are slow as fsck too on 128MB RAM. Do you really dare to deny that?
I know, because I use Gentoo on a 366MHz box with 160MB 'o RAM. I would not DARE to run KDE on it. I use IceWM instead, but it's still painstakinly to run FireFox and OpenOffice.org and aMSN together.
However, the blame isn't just Linux. It's the apps. KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox...just to name a few. They are terribly huge. But no one likes to optimize for free, so you won't see that changing.
You can say a lot about Microsoft, but Office and MSIE start pretty damn fast and use less RAM than their OpenSource counterparts. Unless you like to compare lynx to MSIE and Abiword to MS Office, ofcourse.
Just for the record, I have just booted into KDE, and started only aMSN, Firefox, konsole and kdict. Memory footprint:
774680 TOTAL
263724 USED
17096 BUFFERED
124584 CACHED
That's 260MB used already.