Linked by Bob Marr on Thu 10th Jun 2004 05:48 UTC
Linux 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 deserves....
by John Blink on Thu 10th Jun 2004 07:27 UTC

...to be slashdotted and OSNEWed (200 post by tomorrow morning), and Google NEwed ;)

This is exactly the problem with the Linux desktop, developers mean well, but I don't feel they have considered how many CPU cycles there programs take. Maybe it is also a syncronization problem in their program too.