Why Fedora needs so much RAM?

[Mike McCarty]

frank wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to run live CD of fedora 7. In the boot up menu, one item is
> run from RAM. It requires 1GB+ memory. I wondered why fedora 7 takes
> so much memory. Recently, I am looking for a linux that requires less
> memory. Supprisingly, Puppy2 and Damn Small Linux can run linux from
> RAM with 128 MB and 48 MB ram.

I have run DSL with 16MB RAM.

Mike
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