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[Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an instance of Zenix (Debian Based) that runs on 70MB RAM using my
Virtual Machine. Whether the Developer could actually squeeze another 20MB
out of it and retain good functionality is something I can ask, but doubt.
It is already a pretty slim system!

If anyone would like to have a try with it, it is available for download
from http://zenix-os.net/download.html

Regards,

Phill.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:10:23 +0200
> Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Le Monday 04 July 2011 à 18:48 -0400, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a
> > écrit :
> > > Question to the devs: do you think that maybe one day the
> > > optimizations could make a nice and usable system (say "Lubuntu")
> > > running with the requeriments that Win98 did? I'm talking about less
> > > that 150Mhz and less than 50Mb Ram...
> >
> > For the 50 Mb of RAM, maybe not "out-of-the-box", but maybe in the
> > futur, when it will be easier to disable more services, and with some
> > optimizations. And of course, if nothing from the outside add more
> > weight :) But for now, we are just trying to maintain the actual
> > situation :)
> >
> > For the 150 MHz, difficult to say, it's really ... slow and old :) I had
> > this type of computer when I was a kid :)
> >
> I only had a 1.25MHz CPU and 768 bytes of RAM in my computer as a kid. :)
>
> I would say a 300MHz CPU and 128 KiB of RAM is a more realistic lower
> limit, i.e. machines from earlier this century.  For machines from the
> previous century I would suggest looking at TinyCore [1], or something like
> FreeDOS [2] and GEM [3].
>
> [1] http://www.tinycorelinux.com
> [2] http://www.freedos.org/
> [3] http://www.deltasoft.com/
>
> --
> Steve Cook (Yorvyk)
>
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