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IIRC from a talk a few years ago, Xorg can be stripped down to around 600KB, so you could probably have a minimal X environment.
by badsectoracula 6y ago
IIRC from a talk a few years ago, Xorg can be stripped down to around 600KB, so you could probably have a minimal X environment.
- boogies 6y agoTinyCore (on the frontpage a while ago) fits an OS with a FLTK/FLWM desktop in 16 MB of storage⁰, but it requires a bare minimum of 46 MB of RAM to boot (regardless of swap space, which it recommends along with 128 MB of RAM).¹ OTOH KnightOS² (not Linux) has a rudimentary (obviously not Xorg) GUI that IIUC runs on TI-73 series graphing calculators with 25 KB of RAM. ⁰http://tinycorelinux.net/welcome.html http://tinycorelinux.net/welcome.html ¹http://tinycorelinux.net/faq.html#req http://tinycorelinux.net/faq.html#req ²https://knightos.org/ https://knightos.org/
- anthk 6y agoTiny X existed and Basic Linux ran in those specs: https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/ https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/