
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.
I agree. However, XP and Windows 2003 Server does that better than Fedora/SuSE/Mandrake in terms of memory requirements and CPU needed. So, there will always be some comparison going on.