Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will run on a Raspberry Pi 4 with just 2GB of RAM(liliputing.com)
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will run on a Raspberry Pi 4 with just 2GB of RAM
https://liliputing.com/2022/01/ubuntu-22-04-lts-will-run-on-a-raspberry-pi-4-with-just-2gb-of-ram.html
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The article mentions that this will be possible due to zswap. But SD card failure is a problem that Raspberry Pis are notorious for. Will this swapping wear out the cards and lead to failure even faster?
The Pi4 can boot from usb, so if this is a problem then at least there is an alternative. And a better alternative I might add, as the usb bus speeds are much faster than sd card reads/writes.
In 1992, a typical Sun/SGI/HP/DEC high end ($30-75K) workstation of the day would have around 64 MEGAbytes of memory, and the largest SCSI hard disks available were only 1-2 GB.
You can't tell me that what most people are doing on a Raspberry Pi wouldn't have been perfectly possible on a machine of that caliber.
Linux is too fat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ2U0boOucY