Eli the Bearded wrote:
>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>> Lighter weight distro/s such as Raspian and others should continue to
>>> get the most attention from ARM devices.
>
> Is Raspbian really "light" though? It's a lot lighter than conventional
> desktop Linux, but still kinda heavyweight. I had an used a functional
> GUI Unix in the 1990s that installed to some 60 megabytes of disk, and
> worked with my 4 megabytes of RAM.

In the 90s, I preferred the GUI of a modified Win98se, litePC dev
98lite, which came in variants, sleek, chubby, overweight, and micro,
which could do fine in as little ram as W95.  But that was more like 32
megs of ram.

Linux on 32 megs of ram wasn't my 'style' :-)

For 1 meg of ram, in the latter 80s I ran my Motorola 68000 cpu GUI
Atari ST TOS 1.0 w/ no hdd, OS in eprom, only a floppy for anything one
needed to save.  I did all of my online activities running in a cache/
text capture of Flash the telecom program which ran handy scripts.


Today I see Raspbian up in 85, but current Ub (Gnome) needs 672 and Neon
KDE 381; so that is 1.76x KDE req by Gnome, not 2x.


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Mike Easter

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