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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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forinti ◴[06 Dec 25 15:55 UTC] No.46174272[source]▶
The Acorn Archimedes had the whole OS on a 512KB ROM.

That said, OSs came with a lot less stuff then.

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1. lproven ◴[08 Dec 25 12:18 UTC] No.46191404[source]▶
> The Acorn Archimedes had the whole OS on a 512KB ROM.

True. And it's still around. It's FOSS now, runs natively on a Raspberry Pi 1-400 and Zero, and has Wifi, IPv6, and a Webkit browser.

https://www.riscosopen.org/content/

https://www.riscosdev.com/direct/