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Best os choices and use cases for a netbook with 2ram?
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Any Linux distribution will work, your biggest problem is your web browser. (They are fat fucking pigs) outside of that problem less than 64MB is still usable
I think less than 64MB is difficult these days - a few years ago, I was backing up a laptop with 48MB of RAM, and to get a minimal Linux terminal running on it, I had to create a custom Buildroot image and throw it on a CD. TinyCore was too much for it.
A fast SSD with 2GB of swap really helps.
No, I mean TinyCore literally would run out of RAM during boot.