It’s funny but it’s not true
Well, not with 1. But collect a few million transistors,
Gosh, his character as ‘himself’ on Arrested Development was so damn good. It gets me every time. I think I’m way past due for another rewatch; thanks for reminding me! This was also a wonderful usage of the reference and gif! :)
100 percent believe he was poor irl. Taj p Henson still struggling.
Plot twist: it’s actually a whole SoC packaged to look like a single transistor, with the pins being for +V, ground, and a 1-Wire data bus.
I don’t know that such a thing exists, but these days I bet it could.
You’re right. A lightbulb plugged into a potato is the real minimum system requirement.
But could it run doom?!
Not with that attitude!
Linux requires at least 32 bit machine words, and it always has. Linux was originally written for Intel 80386.
Linux requires a hardware MMU to support virtual memory. There are patches that can make a no-MMU kernel, but it drastically changes the experience to do so.
Well it is kinda cheating but Linux does “run” on a intel 4004 running a MIPS emulator
I think you could cook something like a 4-bit turing complete computer with around 100 transistors or so. And i guess turing completeness basically means “it will run with enough elbow grease” in this case
(if we exclude memory from the transistor count…)
There’s an ESP32 with MMU running Linux now
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I will probably be hated for this.
NetBSD’s slogan is “Of course it runs NetBSD”, and with good cause.
I don’t mean to brag, but I have two of those.
In this economy?!
This made me look up if you could somehow run it on vacuum tubes, sadly not
9 day boot time on a 4004!
I’m sure someone could figure out how to boot Linux on a vacuum tube computer. The problem is there just aren’t that many around that are still operational.
OMG!
I booted Debian Linux on a 4-bit intel microprocessor from 1971 - the first microprocessor in the world - the 4004. It is not fast, but it is a real Linux kernel with a Debian rootfs on a real board whose only CPU is a real intel 4004 from the 1970s. The video is sped up at variable rates to demonstrate this without boring you. The clock and calendar in the video are accurate. A constant-rate video is linked below.
Requirements are one resistor. Gold band for optimal performance.
I code by laying out gravel patterns for crickets to run through.
You may not like it, but if your distro can’t run on this, it’s bloated.
(Optional)
Shows image of a common NPN bipolar low power transistor
You’re telling me that a Japanese (Nippon) person with wild mood swings and low self esteem who identifies as a trans sister, also runs Linux? How is this news.
wait till you hear about igbt trans sisters
I run arch btw
same
look at you with your fancy semiconductor, all i need are some rocks in a desert
Damn I hate when they increase the minimum requirements
Holy crap, I know FOR SURE now that most of you are no fun at parties. Good luck out there lol.
We’re in a Linux meme community on Lemmy. There was no need for further confirmation lol
Oh I am aware. Just hoping to prompt some self awareness in these young nerds.
Some joker will get it to run on a 1N34A.
The 2N3904 isn’t “minimum requirements for Linux” - it’s one bipolar transistor, and a Linux-capable computer still needs a CPU made from vastly more transistors, plus RAM, storage, clocking, buses, and supporting hardware. Not funny.
This is the funniest comment
Normal Person: “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”
bnn1: “WELL, ACTUALLY, thats a lie because the average human stomach can only hold a maximum of about 4 liters of equivalent content, and a horses edible components break down into a far greater volume than 4 liters, as you should well know, making it fundamentally impossible for a human beings stomach, much less body, to be able to consume even a fraction of a horse before suffering egregious emergency harm. Not Funny”
I didn’t say in one sitting!
I love this comment, but I love even more that it got downvoted
Don’t get it twisted
This meme made me wonder what’s the minimum number of transistors needed to run linux
