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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At that time i ran Mandrake 7.1 on a PIII 450MHz 64 MB. I switched to Slakware (8.0 or 8.1). It was another world. Try Slackware. It's another way. I haven't yet tried Gentoo or Debian. I'm still on Slackware. (Though i changed to a P4 1700MHz 256 MB).
I also tried BEOS R5.. I feel Impressed, It's fast fast fast (but W98 is fast too on a P4). It's great. But it's dead, more or less, and Zeta it's something strange. I think they don't have BeOS code, so the hack and hack here and there without the possibility to really improve the kernel code etc.
Another problem with BeOS. It's not multiuser. Sadly.