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You could chooch along quite nicely in Kolibri OS all the way down to 8MB of RAM it seems and have a relatively okay experience in it [1]. Seems as though somet
by bArray 7y ago
You could chooch along quite nicely in Kolibri OS all the way down to 8MB of RAM it seems and have a relatively okay experience in it [1]. Seems as though something like Puppy Linux will get you going on 64MB of RAM or lower [2].
If you really want to take Linux to the extreme, probably the place to start would be the efforts made to use it on embedded devices [3].
[1] https://kolibrios.org/en/ https://kolibrios.org/en/
[2] http://wikka.puppylinux.com/MinimumSystemRequirements http://wikka.puppylinux.com/MinimumSystemRequirements
[3] https://elinux.org/Main_Page https://elinux.org/Main_Page
- ahje 7y agoI still have a very old USB key with Puppy Linux on it from, back a darker time when I didn't have my own computer. I've booted quite a few very old systems with it, probably down to Pentium-era machines, and things usually ran well. I do remember it was quite RAM intensive due to having a relatively large filesystem in RAM. I'd say 64 MB is a minimum if you actually want to use it for anything.