Star The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat
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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Hi THere!

I have a Celery 900MHz Desknote with 256MB RAM 10 GB 5400 IDE HD, and a dual PIII 450/384MB 36GB SCSI LVD Matrox G400.

Galeon, Evolution, Gnome-terminal (GNOME 2.6 Debian Sid) load on login on seperate virtual desktops, and both machines are quite perky. All the apps are GNOME, and use Gnome shared libraries, thus reducing RAM use. Open Office takes a while to load, but once there is pretty fast. Totem plays back DVDs flawlessly on the dual PIII with out even a skip, and is so easy to use! Couldn't do that under Windows on that hardware!

Nautilus in 2.6 is FAST, and I like the new browsing modes. Much like Mac OS 9 which I have played with and like.

Just my 2c - Mandrake is definitely slower due to a whole lot of plug and play smarts it seems.