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[Brad Parker]

Don Y wrote:
>Zane H. Healy wrote:
>> At 10:27 AM -0400 8/4/06, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>>> On Friday 04 August 2006 00:35, Don Y wrote:
>>>  > If you want to burden the implementation with "this has to
>>>>  run on ANY conceivable x86 machine built since 1980", then
>>>>  you're imposing a lot on the design.  How many Linux kernels
>>>>  will boot on a 4MB machine? 
>>>
>>> I've done it before, the main issue is that there's so little space left
>>> over for userspace apps to run in...

I run linux on the ceiva picture frames (the old ones). It only has 4mb
of ram. That's enough for the kernel, several apps and a ramdisk file
system.

If I had more free time I'd run uclinux - I suspect everything would a lot
smaller (but I'm not completely sure)

-brad