alt Hacker NewsRAM shortage or competent programmer shortage?
Can't get a Linux box to idle (or even install) under 512M these days.
Can't find a web developer worth a shit who doesn't think he needs a Python backend application server to print "Hello, world" when you could do this with a static page served with something like OpenBSD with two-digit RAM requirements.
It's not the RAM that's changed; it's everyone around the RAM.
A coddled generation who were taught that AWS is the Internet and live in abstractions certainly hasn't helped.
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vbezhenar • yesterday at 6:59 PM
You definitely can use Linux with few simple servers with 128 MB RAM.
Install can be tricky indeed, but if you have installed system, it's easier.
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My NixOS SSH jump host server here idles at 234 MB of which 64 MB is systemd-journald (which I assume can be reduced with some settings of how much to keep in RAM).