[CS-FSLUG] Minimum requirements on the rise

[N. Thompson]

It would seem that minimum requirements are on the rise again, Mandrake 
10.0 needs 128 Mb of ram as do most distributions and the FTP installs 
usually need about 192+ Mb of ram. That does seem margionally higher 
then a year or two back with the minimum requirement for most 
distributions was only 64 Mb of ram for a local installation.

I was wondering how long it will be before the minimum jumps up to 
something like 256 Mb of ram or even 512 Mb, and then what about 
processor requirements. I'm just curious how much everyone thinks 
minimum requirements are going to climb over the next few years, has it 
really gotten to the point where we're going to have to double our 
computer's ram every two years and our computer's processors every five 
in order to keep up with the mainstream Linux distributions?