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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linux is getting bloated, just like everybody else.
i remember clearly the days of red hat 4.2, the very first linux I tried. it ran comfortably at 32MB, and was serving like 70 simultaneous FTP users (MP3 downloaders!) over an E1 (2.048Mbps) line. i remember upgrading to 64MB and things were still fast even if there were 200 simultaneous FTP users on board. and it was a cacheless Pentium 133 MHz. to think that Slackware users then were telling me that RH4.2 was "fat."
i just noticed that given around 128MB of RAM or less, Windows (Win2K; haven't tried XP with this little RAM) performs better with its GUI and Office than Linux. Of course, once the RAM reaches 512MB or so, Linux performs better than Windows even with slower CPU machines.