[lug] 32meg linux running X?
Ian Hall-Beyer
manuka at nerdherd.net
Wed Feb 23 10:27:21 MST 2000
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
--
<cosmo> wow, this is kinda nifty. the win98 protocol stack is
like a chinese finger puzzle, twist and turn in the right places,
and it pops right off --Seen on EFNet IRC
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