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

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518 points LorenDB | 2 comments | 06 Dec 25 14:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.478s | 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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maccard ◴[06 Dec 25 15:26 UTC] No.46174032[source]▶
A single 1920x1080 framebuffer (which is a low resolution monitor in 2025 IMO) is 2MB. Add any compositing into the mix for multi window displays and it literally doesn’t fit in memory.
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1. perching_aix ◴[07 Dec 25 02:29 UTC] No.46178650[source]▶
More like 6.2+ MB, or at least I'd sure hope that a FHD resolution is paired with at least a 24 bit (8 bpc) SDR color. And then there's the triple buffered vsync at play, so it's really more like 18.6+ MB.
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2. BobbyTables2 ◴[07 Dec 25 06:15 UTC] No.46179560[source]▶
My video card then didn’t have video ram for 256 color SVGA…