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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RAM, as pointed out, is cheap. I run Fedora Core 2 on the slowest computer in the house, a K6-2 350 BUT it does have 448 MB of RAM. I noticed quite a peformance boost between Core 1 and 2, and that's due to good programming. IE GNOME 2 is now very fast, KDE 3 remains as fast as ever, both are only getting better. Comparitively I used to run Windows 2000 on this machine and it was sluggish. I finally get the speed I used to from Windows 98 in Linux. All you need is more RAM, you can keep your old computer.