Qi-Hardware Nanonote group purchase?

[Benjamin Scott]

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
>>    RAM may or may not be a problem.  It's got 32 MB, which is more
>> than anything Project Athena had at first, but software seems to take
>> up more and more memory as times goes on.  Maybe swapping to flash?
>
> My 1st linux box was a 486 w/ 16MB ram and ran X just fine.   I think
> it could w/ just 8MB.  More was better of course.

  Yah, and these days the kernel takes up more than that.  On my
desktop here, vmlinux is 2.2 MB, initrd is 8.4 MB, and those are both
compressed.  X reports a resident size of 40 MB, although how much of
that (if any) might actually be video card RAM I dunno.

-- Ben