suse distribution

Yesterday I tried the suse 9.1 live cd that I got from a magazine. It worked fine and now I want to make sure that the network, modem, etc. stuff works. I am still concerned with the memmory requirements for Fedora. Right now Fedora recommends a machine with 256 meg memmorywhich is what my computer has and I am concerned that the next release of fedora will need more. My machine is maxed out. I do have a spare machine with 512 meg, but to use it I would have to swap my cd burner and my hard drive and I prefer not to do all that work. Suse requires only 64 meg.