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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everyone here is moaning about not being able to run gnome or kde on really old memory constrained systems....
installing linux on an amd 233 with 64mb ram, but kde runs too slowly ?
emm, did the pc not have win9x installed before ?
why do you not want to use icewm ? it is basically a linux version of the win9x interface. and it will run faster than the win9x interface.Oh, and OO will run on it too.
No-one with even a bit of sense would try to install win2000 or xp on that machine, so why would anyone try a DE ?