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Re:OS/2 resurrected: Blue Lion becomes ArcaOS, details emerg... by abecedarius on Sunday May 29, 2016 @09:57PM (#11799146)
Re: Linux. 16MB could run a reasonable X environment in the early 90s. I sometimes ran it in 8, but that was kind of marginal. Maybe you'd call it very constrained in not including Gnome or KDE, but it didn't feel that way.
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Re:OS/2 resurrected: Blue Lion becomes ArcaOS, details emerg... by Zardoz84 on Monday May 30, 2016 @05:55AM (#11800531)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuLinux -> 4 MiB with X11 on a 386 and 20MiB or diskless with 16 MiB of RAM

* On 1998 I ran SuSE 5.3 with KDE and GNOME (even Gnome 1 over KDE 1.x !!) on a machine with 16 or 32 MiB of RAM and a AMD 486DX5 at 133Mhz . And was working fine.

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Re:OS/2 resurrected: Blue Lion becomes ArcaOS, details emerg... by lake99 on Monday May 30, 2016 @01:39AM (#11799759)
I remember running FVWM quite comfortably back then on 16MB. I dual-booted with Windows 95, which also ran quite smoothly.
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