4 Aug
2006
4 Aug
'06
8:44 a.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 10:27 AM -0400 8/4/06, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
FreeBSD used to run "acceptably" on a 4-5M 386sx -- before bloat
set it.
One of my Opus PM's runs with *2* MB of physical memory -- and
currently 20MB of disk.
On Friday 04 August 2006 00:35, Don Y wrote:
I used to have a 386sx/16 Twinhead laptop with 4MB RAM, Math
Coprocesser, and a 320MB HD running Linux *AND* X-Windows (the system
had been upgraded from 1MB RAM to 4MB, the Coprocessor added, and from a
40MBHD to a 320MB HD specifically to run Linux and BSD). 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...