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282 points paulnpace | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.4s | source
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fujigawa ◴[22 Oct 25 03:34 UTC] No.45664664[source]▶
The most compact, minimalist general purpose OS out there by far. Tiny memory footprint and loaded with network services built-in.

Linux has become so bloated its users can't in good conscience make fun of Microsoft anymore, they are worse.

Debian refuses to install with less than 512MB RAM, the text only installer will choke with less than that, it's pathetic. That's a console-only install, no GUI.

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mycall ◴[22 Oct 25 03:42 UTC] No.45664704[source]▶
Alpine Linux is similar in spirit to openbsd, slim and secure but perhaps with less features oobe.
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1. fujigawa ◴[22 Oct 25 03:47 UTC] No.45664725[source]▶
They cheat and use busybox.

Meanwhile OpenBSD running all the default network services like sshd and smtpd uses < 32 MB RAM and that's with full ksh and real tools. That doesn't happen by accident.

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2. argsnd ◴[22 Oct 25 07:24 UTC] No.45665861[source]▶
Is that fair? Busybox has fewer features than OpenBSD coreutils but those in turn have fewer features than GNU coreutils. All three implement the entire POSIX spec as far as I am aware.