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minus-squareElvith Ma'for@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 days agoHere’s someone testing it to try make a computer without (or with as little as possible) RAM: https://youtu.be/IHItbgHutVo
minus-squaremesa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 days agoI remember getting puppy linux to work ONLY on RAM. Crazy times we are in when DDR3 is going up in price. I have that in my decade+ old computer.
minus-squareouRKaoS@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days agoI ran puppy off of a 16GB flash drive on my main rig after a catastrophic HDD failure for like a year before I finally got new parts. Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution
minus-squarevanillama@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoHow good/bad was it compared to the HDD?
minus-squareouRKaoS@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoIt was surprisingly decent for running Firefox & a text editor, which covered probably 80% of my usage at the time, so it worked just good enough for me to procrastinate on fixing things.
Here’s someone testing it to try make a computer without (or with as little as possible) RAM:
https://youtu.be/IHItbgHutVo
I remember getting puppy linux to work ONLY on RAM. Crazy times we are in when DDR3 is going up in price. I have that in my decade+ old computer.
I ran puppy off of a 16GB flash drive on my main rig after a catastrophic HDD failure for like a year before I finally got new parts.
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution
How good/bad was it compared to the HDD?
It was surprisingly decent for running Firefox & a text editor, which covered probably 80% of my usage at the time, so it worked just good enough for me to procrastinate on fixing things.