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Can Modern Linux Fit on a 1.44mb Floppy? [19:50] | Action Retro (youtube.com)

submitted 10 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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Today we're installing a modern Linux... on a single 1.44mb floppy disk!

🍎 Guide: https://github.com/w84death/floppinux

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[–] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

TL:DW;

Yea thanks to https://github.com/w84death/floppinux

[–] kyonshi@piefed.social 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

How does it actually need 20mb of RAM if the system fits into 1.44mb?

Ok, a bit of an academic question, but still

[–] impolitecarry@lemmy.wtf 18 points 10 months ago

Possibly because the version stored on disk is heavily compressed (the keyword squashfs comes to mind), and its expanded to its full form when its in memory?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

besides uncompressing itself, there will be other info that is needed at runtime that requires dynamic memory allocation beyond the size of the kernel itself, like hardware/memory maps, framebuffers, filesystem/networking stuff, caches etc.