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Yea thanks to https://github.com/w84death/floppinux
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025
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How does it actually need 20mb of RAM if the system fits into 1.44mb?
Ok, a bit of an academic question, but still
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?
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.
It's not Linux, but there's MenuetOS, which is an OS written entirely in 64-bit assembly that can fit (barely) on a 1.44 MB floppy. https://menuetos.net/
Why is the label written upside down?
It is? I always wrote labels that way, so that the sensitive part could face down in the storage box.
Same, and made it easier to read when flipping through them.
It's not, labels were always written that way. They went into a box where the slide was facing down so the label was always visible at the top.
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