On 11/12/2019 22:06, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In comp.sys.raspberry-pi, The Natural Philosopher  
wrote:
>> On 11/12/2019 03:36, 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.

My raspian lite ... on a pi zero

top - 04:35:44 up 40 days, 19:21,  1 user,  load average: 0.08, 0.10, 0.09
Tasks:  93 total,   1 running,  61 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  0.3 us,  2.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 97.7 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,
0.0 st
KiB Mem :   443100 total,    41788 free,    36232 used,   365080 buff/cache
KiB Swap:   102396 total,   102396 free,        0 used.   324200 avail Mem

$ df -h
Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                   15G  1.7G   13G  13% /
devtmpfs                   213M     0  213M   0% /dev
tmpfs                      217M     0  217M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                      217M   22M  195M  11% /run
tmpfs                      5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs                      217M     0  217M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                      1.0M  8.0K 1016K   1% /var/MiPiFi
/dev/mmcblk0p1              44M   23M   21M  52% /boot

MOST of that I could throw away and it would still run.
But why bother?




> text windows are more GUIish than mere Altair 8800 status LEDs
>

Hmmm


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