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Re:FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service by bityard on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @08:49AM (#46444014)
It's just the price of progress. When I started playing with Linux, a full fledged Linux desktop with web browser and all ran very happily on a machine with 16 megabytes of RAM. At the time, there were distributions that fit on a floppy disk.

Both are more or less impossible now, but I don't think we should think of 100mb of "background state" as bloated. The fact that your can get a lot of useful stuff done on Linux in under 512mb in 2026 while Windows and Mac need multiple GB just to get out of bed is pretty awesome.

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Re:FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service by andai on Thursday January 01, 2026 @01:33AM (#46451838)
So... what's the progress exactly? Everything is bloated now and looks way less cool!
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Re:FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service by array_key_first on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:30PM (#46490742)
Lots of this is more aggressive caching and pre-allocation. Also, most Linux apps, both gui and console, are C and C++. They're basically almost as fast as they can get.
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