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From: Matt Bernstein <matt@theBachChoir.org.uk>
To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@microdata-pos.de>
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Subject: Re: Limited RAM - how to save it?
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You might like to patch an older Linux than 2.2 :)
dietlibc might help userspace, too.. (though I don't know if you can link
against it)

At 12:52 +0100 Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

>I'm working on a 4MB linux system (for a customer) which has quite
>limited resources at all:
>
>	- 4MB RAM
>	- 386 or 486 like processor (9..16 BogoMIPS)
>	- < 100MB HDD
>	- Quite a lot user space running:-(