[ale] [EXTERNAL] Linux on 6GB Dell notebook?

[neal at mnopltd.com]

I think I can remember Fortune unix systems that had a 20mb disk, which 
was waaaaaay better than the 5mb disk.

But I also remember taking all the tubes out of our TV and taking them 
to the drugstore to test them and replace the bad tube.

On 2021-12-08 21:35, Ben Coleman via Ale wrote:
> On 11/15/2021 11:59 AM, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
>> Linux had moved long way. From be able to run kernel and shell in 2 MB 
>> to would it run in 6GB.
> 
> I can remember running a firewall on a machine that only had a 100MB
> hard drive.  And that was enough to be able to compile a kernel on the
> machine.  Now the Linux sources themselves won't fit in 100MB.
> 
> Ben
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