Re: Choosing a [minimum] Distribution

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From: Peter T. Caffin
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:00

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Michael Strates <mstrates@croftj.net> wrote:
> I beleive Ian was refering to the minimum "usable" configuration. While
> I have run Linux kernels on machines with as low as memory as 2MB (this
> was with the older kernels, YMMV) 4MB seems quite usable, with the 2.x
> kernels.

While looking for documentation on the as86 program (see other posting), I
came across documentation suggesting that the true minimum working RAM
requirement for Linux was 1M. You'd need to be sure that the kernel
image wasn't compressed though. Something like that.

Disclaimer: I do not write kernel code ;).

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