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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Bottom line is...
by Rodrigo on Thu 10th Jun 2004 06:44 UTC

...You can't eat the cake and have it.

If ones expect the system to have all the bells and whistles, beautiful interface with lots of themes and decorations, everything plug and play, support to all type of multimedia formats etc, one should expect higher requirements.