User Feedback :: How low can you go?

The lowest I have gone, RAM-wise, is 12MB of RAM and that's with the super-low-ram-cheatcode-list that is posted in the Cheatcodes section of the wiki.

I have successfully installed dsl (with graphics) in full-install mode on a Versa 486 50MHz laptop with 20MB of ram and a 500MB hard drive. I use it for nethack, text-based web browsing, and I even managed to get Xephem up and running on it. It only takes about five minutes to boot completely and about the same amount of time to install (not download) apt-get packages. The thing is a beast! Way to go DSL!!!

I've got a 100mhz 22mg toshiba satellite sitting right next to me. Works fine but a little slow. I never used the base option tho.

Wow,

I think that 486 with 22 megs of ram REALLY shows us how DSL can bring alive computers long thought to be unusagle any longer. People could pull them out of the basement or garage, pop in DSL and even donate them somewhere. Amazing.:D

I know how low DSL can _not_ go, because I've tried it after a HD install on a 486 laptop with 4 MB RAM and it could not boot because it could not spawn the tty... then i've tried it in a qemu with 8 MB of ram and it booted in it (after a hard drive install done with more ram).

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