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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Blah blah blah, lots of anecdotal evidence which doesn't amount to anything.
Programs do more than they did X years ago. They require resources to do so. So if you want to run some program today at the same speed the same program ran X years ago, you need more resources (this obviously only holds for mature programs).
No, you can't run the latest and greatest with all the fancy stuff on your ten year old Pentium 90MHz with 24 MB RAM. The latest and greatest will always require more resources than what some people have.
Try interpolating between the requirements for Windows XP and Longhorn and then plot those requirements listed for FC2 on the same graph. I don't think it looks even unreasonable.