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 don't believe all what you say, not one bit. I use XP on a 256 MB machine as well as many others on an Athlon-XP 1.3 GHz and it runs great. Either your installation is hosed, or you blatantly lie.
Typical response of the astroturfer. "You must be doing something wrong." It's not Windows, it the user. Your other choice is just downright insulting. If you can't defend the product, attack the consumer. The system is as described, it is properly installed, and I don't blatantly lie.
Anticipating another attack, the drive is a 7200RPM 120G ATA133 drive with 8M buffer. It's been recently defragmented. I didn't say it ALWAYS takes a minute to flip windows, but that it CAN take that long. I've found that rebooting the computer every other day clears that up pretty well. The longer the computer is run without rebooting, the worse the thrashing gets until it takes more than a minute to just pull up menus. XP has bad memory fragmentation issues that get worse as the system is used, particularly if you use multiple programs.