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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>Linux is a kernel. It runs on machines with 2MB
>of RAM quite well, depending on kernel version.
The title of the article is about the "Linux platform", meaning the desktop and surrounded apps, NOT just the kernel.
I wish Linux supporters stop using the same argument over and over when someone says something negative about the *platform* and they happen to use the word "Linux" simply because it is generic enough and convienient. We all know what the author meant, so there was no reason for the trivia.