Star The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat
Linked by Bob Marr on Thu 10th Jun 2004 05:48 UTC
Linux 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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Another point
by Lumbergh on Thu 10th Jun 2004 06:40 UTC

Things will probably continue to get worse as far as desktop bloat goes when you consider that say your primarily a Gnome user, but like to use that one KDE app. Well by using that one KDE app you're probably bringing in 3/4 of the KDE desktop libraries as well.

I guess that's the price you pay for the "freedom to choose".