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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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.
I'd have to disagree. The author mentioned Syllable, among others, so I'll pick up on it now. Syllable can boot from power-on to login window in around 16 seconds, even on machines as slow as E.g. an AMD K6 233. It is usable in 64Mb (Which is a lot but we're hoping to actually bring that number down in future) A typical Syllable system is running the appserver, the Media server, the Registrar and the Dock. With a setup like this, you can play media from WAVs to XVid MPEG-4 video.
Syllable has low overhead because we've tried to make it that way. We're mindful of increasing memory usage or anything that might slow the computer down. We don't introduce large dependency trees which require tens of additional libraries or applications to be loaded to support another application (which is quite possibly Linux's biggest problem) I fail to see why modern Linux distributions can't do the same things.