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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: 0.196s | 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. bigiain ◴[07 Dec 25 04:16 UTC] No.46179105[source]▶
Anyone else remember the QNX demo disk from the late '90s? A full unix-like GUI environment that booted from a 1.44MB floppy disk. Ran super responsively in 386 machines with 8MB of RAM.
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2. Suppafly ◴[07 Dec 25 07:22 UTC] No.46179881[source]▶
They had a free distro for a while, it's was pretty exciting being real time and with a microkernel and such. As a CS student it was neat to see where the world of computing might have went if different decisions had been made in the past.
3. Scoundreller ◴[07 Dec 25 07:42 UTC] No.46179970[source]▶
Here’s a blast of classic internet: http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html

No ssl, probably so you can access that site on the browser