Small footprint linux

brian lists at karas.net
Mon Jun 23 09:48:58 EDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 09:40, Jason Stephenson wrote:
> Well, X will run in 32MB of RAM, but you'll want a decent amount of 
> swap. Say, 4x RAM as a minimum. Thing about Linux and FreeBSD is they 
> will use more RAM if it's available, if not, they'll happily chug along 
> with less. Your system will appear to run slowly, slower than your 
> processor speed might suggest that it should.

Oooops... I think my original message came across wrong.  RAM is
virtually unlimited.  Boot disk space *is* limited, preferably to a 32MB
Flash card...
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brian <lists at karas.net>




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