Even this potato with 512MB of RAM runs a bunch of linux web services without issue.
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You can easily run 2 of Windows Tiny11 builds on that.
https://windowsforum.com/threads/tiny11-run-windows-11-on-just-184-mb-of-ram.348835/
What weird forum is that? It looks like 90% of all posts, including the linked one, is written by ChatGPT.
Can't say I'm overly happy having this ai slop linked here.
Technically M$ copilot.
What's more surprising to me, it seems to me that actual human users are also posting on that forum.
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Pretty cool. If there was something between this and standard bloated Win 11, I would love that. It took me forever to uninstall/block half of the garbage that comes with the OS. It's gotten ridiculous. Tiny 11 sounds like it scrapes just a little too much.
Yeah, yeah, I have Linux on another machine, but there are a number of things that I'm not technically proficient enough to figure out on Linux. He'll, I'm still struggling to get Jellyfin to work remotely.
Windows 11 LTSC can be downloaded and then activated with a script from the same source.
This might be the in-between version you're looking for.
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Yeah, but you can run 7 Debians on it without trying.
Yeah but that will not give you anything useful... Also Tiny11 is x86 only afaik.
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I've tried tiny11 3 times on 2 different laptops. Both were alright resources wise, but still worse than any Linux distro I've tried. After you install some stuff and get forced into the automatic updates, it bloats up fast and slows down drastically, and then just becomes standard windows 11.
If you use only the basic built in windows apps, which doesn't even include edge of the app store, and you use it without internet, sure, you can use it well on very low specs, but even on a moderately spec computer, it'll still slow down if you use it like the average person.
I feel old...when I was learning how to run Linux I started with an old 386 (maybe 486?) my dad wasn't using. I think it had 32MB RAM, which was fancy for those machines.
We had dial up at the time, so only one machine could be on the Internet. So, I set up a modem on the x86, plugged into an Ethernet hub (switch?), and learned enough ipchains (this was before iptables) to share a connection. It also ran Samba, an AFP server, and probably FTP and HTTP (just for local access)
but it worked for filesharing.
It could also run MP3 streaming software which amused me because the machine itself was too slow to decode MP3 (but that's not necessary to stream).
electricity (optional)
I don't think that anyone's yet booted a Linux kernel on a purely-mechanical computer yet.
If you make a redstone PC and don't consider the requirements to run Minecraft... Probably (in-world it wouldn't be using electricity)
Technically possible. How large would such a machine be though...
Since you need 16 billion crabs to run Doom, I suspect easier than you think
OK now we need to run the math, how many crabs to boot a Linux terminal
It wouldn't need to be super large necessarily. It could just be very very slow.
Theoretically, an immortal person with many many stones that follows instructions very clearly could "emulate" (be) a computer, right?
Maybe Linux is the first to run on optical processors?
Ok just wait us Microsoft execs are going to pressure Trump to keep increasing tariffs on the penguins and when all of a sudden they need new suits for all the tween penguins ready to shed their adolescent coat we will see who comes out on top.
This is how you do business, penguins don't know how to do business and we won't let them have our AI so they can figure out how to either.
Trump tariffed penguins because he didn't understand what Microsoft was talking about.
He probably heard the name McDonald Island, assumed that Ronald McDonald lives there, and chose to tariff the island so Ronald will give him special access to unlimited McDoubles for free.
No, this is our plan?
Here at Microsoft's upper management we pride ourselves in expecting nothing but par excellence from one another when it comes to embodying the aesthetics of competence but we are just as gullible and lost in our own bullshit as Trump we just take the danger of the general public realizing this very serious which is why we are going to show the world we aren't kidding about getting these economically inefficient birds back into line by putting them into crushing debt.
In a head on match up, Windows always out perform birds, that is just the fiscal reality and it is only one of the reasons why we are a Fortune 5000 Golden Donald Edition Company!
edit you want proof? Why would hamas supporting Bird Fundamentalists a.k.a. "The Audobon Society" put out anti-Windows propaganda like this?
Window collisions are one of the leading direct human causes of bird mortality.
https://www.audubon.org/news/reducing-collisions-glass
what shameful slander
The radical fake green energy movement's Windmills are the real enemies, Windows is completely harmless.
hahaha ooops did we let it slip we are gleefully profiting from genocide and are desperate to get in on the ground floor of using the veneer of tech hype to run cover for a genocide in any way we can?...yeah for some reason we can't help but tell on ourselves oh well... as a rule nobody gets as rich as I am if they actually care about the consequences of their actions!
Saying penguins don't know how to do business when all of them are wearing business suits 24/7 is a bold statement.
They even live on the continent with the least amount of debt and bankruptcies!
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linux requirements: thigh highs and a tiny blue pill
But the tiny blue pill is so hard to get!
Do you know easy methods to get it?
Grey market or dark net markets.
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"I can't handle typing like this anymore" and "I like pickles" are two sentences I could make out of the blurry text
Came here for this. Pickles are like a researcher's??? Progeny? A researcher's what? I must know.
Also something about Harry Potter in the first lines.
Edit. It's grumpy! But I don't know what!
It repeats. The same "have you ever read Harry Potter" is three lines from the bottom too.
It looks like it repeats every ~5.5 lines if you track the "OK, I can't handle typing like this anymore." which is easier to spot with the capital "OK".
Full Linux system requirements:
- Electricity: optional
- Processor: Ideal
- Blahaj: full sized ideal (smallhaj is ok)
- Socks: thigh highs
- Skirt: spinny
- Breast Mints (good girl juice): self explanatory
- Additional requirements: :3
I don't know what half those things are but I laughed at the words "Breast Mints". No idea what it means.
Like titty skittles but minty
Basically Fem&ms
It's like Antiboyotics.
Also anticistamines
The hard drive and monitor are broken, the fans are busted from experimentation with Half Life 2, but there will still always be
nethack
and
fortune | cowsay
Has anyone tried getting linux to run on a mechanical computer?
Reminds me of this old article (surprised the site is still operating, also archive link)
LOA was the group that first installed Linux on a Shetland pony in 2003, but growing competition from other hacker groups have shut them out in the past five years.
It also has anti requirements, like not having an nvidia graphics card
Those work pretty well these days
Forgot a requirement: must be willing to RTFM. Other than that, it's still way less requirements.
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How can you run Linux without electricity?
ACKTUALLY they're on the verge of dropping i486 support. Fucking bullshit if you ask me. Now they expect us to upgrade our computers more often than once every 40 years? Homebrewers ARE JUST NOW figuring out how to diy i486 motherboard chipsets.
Next thing you know we'll need a 3090ti just to boot into Grub.
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