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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 21:38:02 JST 翠星石

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   • ricardo :mastodon:
   @governa I don't see why you would compare a kernel to an OS.
   
   The kernel, Linux actually does have a minimal RAM requirement of at least 1 MiB to boot up, but you'll just get a panic() during boot and a not actually usable computer as a result.
   
   I've noticed that GNU/Linux manages to work on CPU is out of order execution, with a framebuffer, 88MB of RAM and some swap, but the minimum amount I would really recommend would be 512MB of RAM - good luck getting computers with less than 4GB RAM nowadays even so.
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     ricardo :mastodon: (governa@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 21:38:03 JST ricardo :mastodon:

     Minimum requirements: #windows :windows: vs #linux :linux: