On 07/03/12 14:37, Liam Proven wrote: > On 7 March 2012 14:12, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Not that low for Linux, I have linux on a machine with 12MB (12 >> Megabytes) of RAM and an SD card, operating as a 1-wire server for my >> weather station. It is a Linksys WRT54G router running OpenWRT. >> Running top via ssh I see it is using about half the RAM, including >> 1.3MB for top. > Well, true, but there's not much s/w development you could do in that > space, and it's hardly an enticing prospect for C21 schoolkids, is it? > > I had an early slackware and i think slackware 3.4 running on a 486 sx with 8 mb ram, even had x working that was back in the early 90's I dual booted with DOS / Win3.1. Not that I am suggesting we go back to the 2.0 - tree of course.
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