On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 6:08 AM ZB <zbigniew2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 01:50:42PM +0100, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> > On 25/03/2020 12:28, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote:
> > > Afaik there is no Linux that will run with only 8 MB of RAM.
> >
> > Extract from the Debian Buzz FAQ:
> >
> > "Debian Linux can be installed on systems with only 4 MBytes of RAM.
> (...)
> > An 80386-based system with only 4 MBytes of RAM and 40 MBytes disk space
> has
> > been used to run Debian Linux in this way; i.e., both networking and
> basic
> > X11 server functions operated satisfactorily."
>
> That was valid around 20 years ago... :D  try this with any present distro
>

Of course, you're comparing a 20-year-old distro with a 30-year-old
"distro" of DOS :-)

You get more functionality in a mid-90s Linux than a late-80s DOS.

-- 
andrew fabbro
and...@fabbro.org
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