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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I use Mepis on a P3700, 384mb ram, 32mb Viper AGP card. Dual boot mepis - Win2000.256mb memory is the MIN. in todays world, if you dont want to add a little memory, stay with what you have. On this machine Mepis runs at 99% the speed of 2000 in loading programs, stability, etc. When I had a Permedia2 8mb AGP video card, 2000 ran great, Mepis ran pretty slow. ALL of the distros I have tried in the last 3 years have ran much better with a better video card. Built in sucks, PCI was much better, but the AGP slot speed everything up in both 2000 and Mepis. As for bloat, 2000+ WordPerfect + MediaPlayer9 + dbPoweramp + ZoneAlarm + AVG AntiVirus + AdAware = 3.74gig on my HDD. Mepis, which includes everything I need, 1.93gig. To me Win2000 is bloated, and a security mess to boot. I'll take my bloated Mepis anyday. If people want to switch the will just have to learn, just like they did when the started using windows.