Quote Originally Posted by Dr Unne
Most of them are free. If you have to pay for it, don't use it.

I beg to differ
Paying (Mandrake for example) can be a way to support your favorite distro. True, you can get it for free too, but then, you don't have much support, and you get less than with the paid version.
Also, if you're a company, you might prefer paying versions for all the services that come with the distro.

Anyway.
I find the list of requirements funny, but then, since there are still companies running 95/98 as desktops and NT as servers, I expect the move to longhorn REAL slow, which also means the alternatives will get an opportunity to grab land (more Apache, more Linux...). Well, maybe the specs are justified, you'll need all that to break all the drm stuff included, in order to use your comp the way you want.