Hi, On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 7:56 AM Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> 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."
Linux dropped 386 [sic] years ago due to complications with having no CMPXCHG, etc. for atomic whatever. So you need at least a 486 nowadays. * http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=12165#p12165 ZipSlack 11 (Slackware from 2006, kernel 2.4) used UMSDOS to run atop FAT. IIRC, it optionally could run in 4 MB with swap enabled, otherwise 8 MB was minimum (and good luck compiling anything with GCC!). _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
