On Netbeans; memory and speed

It’s about the most common complaint about Netbeans: It needs to much memory! *wine wine wine*
That, and: it’s so slows *cry cry cry*

You know something, there are two simple ways around this “problem”:

1. If you are running Windos, switch to a real operating system! I recommend:
   1. Kubuntu for people with permanent internet or
   2. SUSE for those who are on dial-up
2. If you are actually writing code, you need a minimum of 1Gb (preferably 1.5Gb) of RAM
   1. This applies to all software developers, regardless of you language or target platform (I included embedded developers in this statement).
   2. Software developers simply tend to have more software running at any given time
3. A dual-core CPU does make an enormous difference to IDE performance

I do 100% of my development on a 1.6Ghz Centrino laptop, with 1.5Gb of RAM (533Mhz if you must know), with a standard laptop hard-drive. With this simple configuration I am amazed at the speed when I run:

• Netbeans 5.5
• Netbeans 6 beta-2
• JBoss 4
• Thunderbird
• Firefox
• Kopete
• Konqueror
• Amarok
• Kerry-Beagle
• Many terminals
• MySQL

Spread out over 4 KDE desktops, and they all perform as if they were running by themselves. If you have the opertunity, switch to Netbeans 6, as it’s a much faster system than any previous version.