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

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518 points LorenDB | 5 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. 1vuio0pswjnm7 ◴[06 Dec 25 15:58 UTC] No.46174291[source]▶
I would like to have this again

I prefer to use additional RAM and disk for data not code

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2. beng-nl ◴[06 Dec 25 16:38 UTC] No.46174616[source]▶
To think that the entire distro would fit in a reasonable LLC (last level cache)..
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3. bobmcnamara ◴[06 Dec 25 17:03 UTC] No.46174806[source]▶
I've been wondering if I could pull the DIMM from a running machine if everything was cached.

Probably not due to DMA buffers. Maybe a headless machine.

But would be funny to see.

4. oso2k ◴[06 Dec 25 18:55 UTC] No.46175682[source]▶
There’s an installation option to run apps off disk. It’s called “The Mount Mode of Operation: TCE/Install”.
5. veqq ◴[06 Dec 25 19:25 UTC] No.46175925[source]▶
Like the k language!