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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This article is right, apps for Linux are gettin slower and slower.. lets take my Notebook for example - Sony Vaio 450Mhz PIII with 320 MB of Ram. I had Mandrake installed before - was cool but sloooow - so I've switched to Gentoo - fast and liht very kewl.
I use it for Mail, web browsing, and working (I code web apps). And I can't find a descent editor which does 3 things: code highlighting, tabs for multiple documents, and customizable shortcuts the way I want.
I've tried them all, to name few: gedit, screem, quanta, bluefish, eclipse, kate, anjuta... and you know what? Except for Kate which I use now they all were unusable slow when editing file with about 1000-2000 lines of code - after pressing enter I had to wait like a 10-15 seconds for the editor to become usable again - and when you code you press enter quite often.
To spice things up I can say that running EditPlus with Wine was faster then using apps I menshioned above and this is very pathethic...
Why applications nativly written for Linux run slower then program running in emulator?
Bad code? Bad design? I don't know but this indeed is alarming...