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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A Plea for Lean Software
by Marko on Thu 10th Jun 2004 07:49 UTC

Nothing new. In 1995 Niklaus Wirth has written this article that explains a lot:

http://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

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