4 Aug
2006
4 Aug
'06
9:43 a.m.
Don Y wrote:
Zane H. Healy wrote:
> At 10:27 AM -0400 8/4/06, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>> On Friday 04 August 2006 00:35, Don Y wrote:
>> > If you want to burden the implementation with "this has to
>>> run on ANY conceivable x86 machine built since 1980", then
>>> you're imposing a lot on the design. How many Linux kernels
>>> will boot on a 4MB machine?
>>
>> I've done it before, the main issue is that there's so little space left
>> over for userspace apps to run in...
I run linux on the ceiva picture frames (the old ones). It only has 4mb
of ram. That's enough for the kernel, several apps and a ramdisk file
system.
If I had more free time I'd run uclinux - I suspect everything would a lot
smaller (but I'm not completely sure)
-brad