Today we're installing a modern Linux... on a single 1.44mb floppy disk!
Can Modern Linux Fit on a 1.44mb Floppy? [19:50] | Action Retro
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SiHZbnFrHOY
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SiHZbnFrHOY
Today we're installing a modern Linux... on a single 1.44mb floppy disk!
12 Comments
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org · 36 pts · 272d
TL:DW;
Yea thanks to https://github.com/w84death/floppinux
kyonshi@piefed.social · 6 pts · 272d
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 pts · 272d
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 pts · 272d
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.
FishFace@piefed.social · 12 pts · 272d
Why is the label written upside down?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 272d
It is? I always wrote labels that way, so that the sensitive part could face down in the storage box.
harmbugler@piefed.social · 4 pts · 272d
Same, and made it easier to read when flipping through them.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 9 pts · 272d
@ActionRetro@bitbang.social is a fan of the cursed.
refalo@programming.dev · 5 pts · 272d
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.
FishFace@piefed.social · 0 pts · 271d
Not in my house...
juliorapido@discuss.tchncs.de · -3 pts · 272d
AI
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 12 pts · 272d
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/