Hi Adrian,
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 8:55 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2024-11-14 at 07:36 +1300, Michael Schmitz wrote:
Development isn't driven by memory pressure anymore, so code bloat is a
natural consequence.
But we're not really suffering from bloat. On the contrary, both software
No, we're not. Kernel images don't grow ca. 25 KiB per kernel release,
and web browsers still run fine in 16 MiB ;-)
like systemd or Rust-compiled software actually use less memory, not more.
Last May, systemd in Debian/sid required me to enable CONFIG_CGROUPS and
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS. Last weekend, I had to add CONFIG_USER_NS.
Yes, that's a small drop in the kernel sea, but all drops count.
While Debian was the first Linux distribution to support m68k, these days
there are other options, maybe some better suited to low memory systems
(and I'd consider even 256 MB on Amiga 'low memory' ...).
How many m68k systems actually have 256 MiB of RAM?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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