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Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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518 points LorenDB | 3 comments | 06 Dec 25 14:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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trollbridge ◴[06 Dec 25 15:15 UTC] No.46173936[source]▶
Not to disrespect this, but it used to be entirely normal to have a GUI environment on a machine with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB disk.

Or 128K of ram and 400 kb disk for that matter.

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1. Perz1val ◴[06 Dec 25 15:20 UTC] No.46173975[source]▶
Yea, but those platforms were not 64bit
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2. monocasa ◴[06 Dec 25 16:12 UTC] No.46174408[source]▶
64 bit generally adds about 20% to the size of the executables and programs as t to last on x86, so it's not that big of a change.
3. IAmLiterallyAB ◴[06 Dec 25 22:42 UTC] No.46177254[source]▶
Switch to an ILP32 ABI and you get a lot of that space back