Why have such high requirements? This is called "Bloat" and could be intolerable. What if I want to install Linux on a 'minimal' system? Some folks out there cannot afford a new system every couple of years and some folks feel it is a waste to place into the trash system their old systems. Sure, you can recycle, but why buy a new system just to keep up with your Operating System?On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 17:35, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Any system today with just 128M of memory is going to run slow
regardless of if it is Linux or Windows. On top of that the OP is
running Linux in a virtual machine which has its own over head added to
the mix. In such an environment the OP should consider running without
a window manager and many of the other optional packages that Fedora
comes with. However I doubt that is what he is looking for.
The OP might find dual booting works better since that would eliminateI agree and I do this. However, what if the OP does not want to reconfigure his system or does not know how?
the overhead of running in a virtual system. Additional memory is also
recommended as that will most likely improve the response times
greatly. After that the user would need to run some reproducible
benchmarks against different parts of the system to track down where the
performance bottle neck is located.
I run FC3 on a system that has 384MB of Ram, but if I desire, I can reconfigure it to 128MB. And I should be able to run LINUX on that system.From the release notes:
I have found that 256MB is marginal and prefer systems with at least 512MB of memory if you plan on running any serious applications. 128MB system trying to run a graphical interface is not recommended even in the release notes.
Depends on which version you want to run. Windows98SE "only" requires 32MB of memory. However, WindowsXP has almost the same requirements as FC3.I suspect Windows has similar memory requirements as well.
I feel, like some other folks, that FC3 is loosing its memory advantage to Windows. However, LINUX is very configurable and can and does run on memory constrained systems. We need to keep LINUXs memory profile low so that it can be run on memory constrained systems.
-- James McKenzie
