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4 MEGAbytes minimum

Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 04 2012 @ 06:18 PM EST

It's 4 megabytes, not 6. I'm aware of one distro that boots
in that much (Bootstrap Linux), and it only uses 2 MB after
boot.
Debian requires 48 MB to install, TinyCore is similar; Ubuntu
and Fedora need 200+ MB.

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6 MEGAbytes minimum requirement

Authored by: DieterWasDriving on Tuesday, December 04 2012 @ 07:07 PM EST

It's been a long time since any Linux kernel could run with that little memory.

The compiled kernel code itself might fit into that small space, but the buffers
needed to do anything result in a much larger footprint.

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Don't confuse a general kernel with a device specific one. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 05 2012 @ 01:39 PM EST
- Don't confuse a general kernel with a device specific one. - Authored by: DieterWasDriving on Wednesday, December 05 2012 @ 04:16 PM EST
  - WILL device-tree make the kernel bigger? - Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, December 05 2012 @ 04:41 PM EST

6 MEGAbytes minimum requirement

Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Wednesday, December 05 2012 @ 12:02 PM EST

Fedora 17 refuses to install if you have less than 512 MB
of RAM, and using it is painful with less than 1 GB.
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