RAM requirement in Fedora

Do you feel 256MB RAM is too minimum for Fedora 6 environment. Will it be better to use Kubuntu (I like KDE more than GNOME) ?

256MB should be fine. Fedora includes KDE, but, from what I've heard, in a crippled form; as in a KDE that was once made to act a lot like Gnome, until they forgot about that goal in Fedora Core 4 or so.

I like Kubuntu, but it still lags a bit behind its bigger Gnome brother in terms of scripts and such. I should try Fredora one of these days.

Does Fedora include up2date?

up2date is some RHN stuff, isn't it ? I don't know, but it includes yum which is similar to apt-get; and smart works on it.

Fedora includes Yum and it's Extender version also. To make matters much easier you can install synaptics which is better and easier to run.

Never tried Fedora. I've just used Ubuntu distros. All of that aside, I think that an OS should be able to run 256. If it can't then I think the OS is too excessive.

I agree with you PropellerHed. In the meantime I did some searching and got hold of few tricks to get the better of the RAM problem. Actually it seems they are loading too many processes which may not be required at all. So you have to manually stop few non required processes to get some memory back. I have also checked Ubuntu and if you ask me I feel it is better in terms of resource handling.