Unikernels were hard. key word: were

Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:26AM (#50071387)

Part of the problem with being old like I've become... and having used Linux since 1991 on a 486 is that in my mind Linux can still be thing I installed off a few 1.44MB 3.5" floppies and ran -- complete with emacs and XFree86 -- in under 8MB of RAM.

Sel4 is cool stuff.

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Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were by kragen on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:39AM (#50073452)

I think it's still possible to make a Linux boot/root floppy, but it's a lot more difficult than it used to be, and it can be hard to find the 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive in the junk closet. I don't think you were ever getting GNU Emacs on there, though — maybe JOVE.

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