On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 01:02, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > If that's not bloatware, I don't know what is :-)
> >
> > Although this is a bit off-topic here, don't consider RedHat as Linux, but
> > only as a distribution, one may go LFS or debian if they need to start from
> > very little or almost nothing, and add the userspace components they need from
> > there... Unlike BSDs which are OSs, Linux is only a kernel, you might as well
> > choose to run Linux without the aweful glibc, too, which too many people seem
> > to think a requirement...
> >
> > When custom configured and compiled, Linux can run fine with 8 megs of RAM
> 
> exactly this. for sure with 2.2.* series kernel, not sure how about 2.4.*
> which are memory bloaters

2.4.* runs fine in 8MB. On MIPS-1 ISA machine, you'll probably have 4-5
MB of RAM left for userland. 

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