[CLUE-Talk] The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat, a comment by Bob Marr

[bof]

Interesting comment on the increasing size and hardware requirements 
needed by the newer versions of Linux.

It would appear that the days when Linux could use older hardware are 
passing on; from personal experience, my K6 475 laptop with 192 MB RAM, 
that ran RH 7.3 just fine now, can run Fedora Core 2, but opening Emacs 
in a KDE terminal window takes 1-2 seconds, and other apps are 
correspondingly slow.

Of course, there's still Slackware, but from some the comments on ./ 
even that now needs 128 MB RAM to run KDE well.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7324&page=1