[lug] 32meg linux running X?

[Ian Hall-Beyer]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Rob Mohr wrote:

> The news copy stated that all of these 'net "appliances" worked with only
> 32 meg of ram.  Is this a trick?  

Just aggressive optimization. One should note here that the car empeg unit
runs on 8MB of RAM. Linux can be extremeley lean when you want it to be. 

> I don't remember any of my minimal linux installs being below 100 meg.  Do

A base Debian install is below 20 megs.

-Ian

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like a chinese finger puzzle, twist and turn in the right places, 
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