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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

OSNews: The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat
Jun 10, 2004,

"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.

"I appreciate that there are other distros; however, this is symptomatic
of what's happening to Linux in general. The other mainstream desktop
distros are equally demanding (even if not as much as Fedora, for example
Arch Linux or Slackware run Gnome on 128 MB, but not very comfortably when
you load 2-3 apps at the same time), desktops and apps are bloating beyond
control, and it's starting to put Linux in a troublesome situation. Allow
me to elaborate..."

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7324 for more of the story