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

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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. embedding-shape ◴[06 Dec 25 15:37 UTC] No.46174138[source]▶
> Or 128K of ram and 400 kb disk for that matter.

Or 32K of RAM and 64KB disk for that matter.

What's your point? That the industry and what's commonly available gets bigger?