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@magicMirror I remember linux on a floppy distros. lol
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@magicMirror so I guess they are still a thing?
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/...
Article says 2022 at top. Wild. -
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@magicMirror more modern does not automatically mean slower. Modern C and Rust do hold up. At the end of the day, all I ask for is a small Linux-based OS with GUI that can run regular x86_64 and i386 binaries. It shouldn't be that hard.
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@retoor Haiku is good, but it's not Linux. Xfce + anything = more than 1 gig
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@kiki what about buildroot? Build the kernel yourself. No idea how to install it on your pc. @Demolishun 's url mentions tiny Linux what is interesting.
Haiku is not Linux (that's the cool part, I'm running it myself now), but it is posix compliant. What about just running your suckless dwm? -
@retoor I need a bit more compatibility than Haiku can offer, but Haiku is for sure dope af. I mentioned it in my talk https://miloxeon.com/talks/...
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@kiki I know you don't want TInyCore, but it requires as minimum an i486 processor:
"The minimum cpu is i486DX (486 with a math processor)."
So finding something that i386 compatible is not going to happen. Sure you can get x86 32 bit. Is that what you are needing or do you need i386 for real? -
@Demolishun even x86_64 will do. I don't want TCL not because of the arch restrictions — I don't want it bc of compatibility. I don't want to compile software specifically for my os setup, I want just to download ready to use binaries
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@kiki as mentioned on your own site, why not alpine Linux?
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@kiki the difference between rasmus and torvalds is just crazy 😂 But I think rasmus agrees, he said that he didn't know what he was doing when creating php. But why compare those two?
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@kiki TCL is for embedded really. It has defaults that are not suited for general purpose.
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@retoor why not?
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@retoor minimum 512 mb of ram for gui desktop
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@kiki because it's apples and oranges. How to compare quality of git to quality of php?
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@magicMirror Dos 5-6 was about 8 floppy disks. You had to install first before windows 3, which was another 8-10 floppies.
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@retoor I think the diskettes are stilled called floppies because the media itself it flexible. Which is why hard drives are HDD. The media is metal disk with magnetic media attached to it.
The hard cased floppies were 3.5" IIRC. The older floppies had a somewhat flexible case. -
@retoor Windows 95 took a lot more. The disks also had a special non-standard format that fit 2MB per disk instead 1.44MB.
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@retoor I've seen different versions of windows 3.1 (which was named because pi is 3.141) anyway yes, windows could be installed with about 6 floppies, but that's with Dos already installed, the standard packs I remember had at least 10 floppies "diskettes" per pack. I remember them from college looking like packs of cream crackers lol
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@lungdart I… didn’t think about it that way. Good point
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@bazmd wow, I never knew
Why is real workable Linux with GUI so big? Windows XP is sub 1 gig, any Linux distro (real one that is, not Tiny Core Linux) is several times that. What am I supposed to use for my old ThinkPads and EEE PCs?
I don't need anything more than what XP gives me. Just an OS with GUI that can run software. Give me a Linux distro that does the same that Windows XP does, while weighing the same. Is it too much to ask?
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