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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by 5e92cb50239222b on Saturday February 04, 2023 @11:07AM (#34655448)
Well, other operating systems are still relatively decent at this. My main Linux install eats ~250 MiB of RAM after startup, and I've spent exactly zero amount of time on that, so it can be trimmed down further. That's on a system with 32 GiB of RAM — if you have less RAM, it will eat even less since page tables and various kernel buffers will be smaller.

FreeBSD can be comfortably used on systems with 64 MiB of RAM for solving simple tasks like a small proxy server. It has always been good at this — back in the day cheap VPS often used it (and not Linux) precisely because of its small memory requirements.

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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by wankle on Saturday February 04, 2023 @11:39AM (#34655703)
No one ever picked FreeBSD because it used less RAM than Linux, I've used and been around Linux since 1994.

This is from 2015: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/40575/what-to-do-with-64-m...

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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by anthk on Saturday February 04, 2023 @12:25PM (#34656173)
OpenWRT Linux with Musl ran fine under 48MB of RAM, 7-8MB running. Modern GNU/Linux, I mean.
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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by avx56 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @11:45PM (#34661961)
No GUI though right?
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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by prmoustache on Sunday February 05, 2023 @03:39AM (#34663083)
Today's version of icewm takes around 16mb of memory, xorg will add a bit to it.

There are smaller window managers but I choose this one as an example as it gives a similar experience to the windows xp of olds.

I have done the experience on slimming as much as possible a desktop. But once you start a web browser with more than 3 tabs memory usage goes through the roof. In the end if you want a very tiny memory footprint you are kind of forced to use the web sans javascript and images. You are almost better off using links or w3m and tui apps for everything.

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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by anthk on Sunday February 05, 2023 @06:23PM (#34670943)
1GB user there. 4-5 tabs it's fine under Luakit, ZRAM (1GB virtual + 1GB physical = 2GB) and a hosts blocking file.
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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by vitorgrs on Sunday February 05, 2023 @12:54AM (#34662346)
Which distro? Last Linux distros I tried wasn't exactly lightweight RAM wise.
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