#Permacomputing is about the future.
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#Permacomputing is about the future. Old CPUs suck (but can be fun). Permacomputing has little to do with #retrocomputing, except insofar as we can examine our past solutions for synergies and such. And pre-enshittification versions of current software. The rest is nostalgia.
Used gear is the future too. There are so many "adequate" systems made in the last 10 years, alone, that meet most peoples needs.
The only non-enshittified OSes today are *nix OSes; freebsd, netbsd, derivatives, and the various linux.
I run Debian 13, as vanilla as I can get for the least effort involved. But linux/etc today are essentially server-class installs used on the desktop/laptop. OK lots of folk on the fedi lurv to wield complexity for it's own sake and that's fine. And eg. Debian is shockingly, wonderfully reliable and given the underlying complexity, surprisingly easy to install and maintain -- if you have the skills.
But I keep wondering about how much could a linux distro be pared back to cut size and complexity? A brutally stripped distro that runs Libreoffice and not much else; and a fancier one with networking (browser memory hogs).
Is there/are there super low end linux distributions I'm not aware of?
I'm not seeing a lot of traffic about permacomputing that aren't entangled with retrocomputing. I'm hoping that's just a feature of my feeds and follows!
Ok, I've merely used #uxn , but the people, here on masto, who develop it, are amazing.
By GOD, this OS is only a few KiloBytes! It runs all kinds of specialised programs!
KBs people, KBs!!
I think the OS, along with it's emulator for linux, maxes out to maybe a few megabytes?
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Ok, I've merely used #uxn , but the people, here on masto, who develop it, are amazing.
By GOD, this OS is only a few KiloBytes! It runs all kinds of specialised programs!
KBs people, KBs!!
I think the OS, along with it's emulator for linux, maxes out to maybe a few megabytes?
Wow thanks! Hadn't heard of #uxn (I need to rtfm) and also, indirectly, limited.systems.
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