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200 MB RAM FreeBSD Desktop

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Recently I came across Lunduke post about some mysterious Vendefoul Wolf Linux distribution that uses 217 MB RAM with Devuan as base (no systemd(1) here) and XLibre X11 server along with IceWM window manager.

For the record – the Lunduke post states 200 MB RAM but XLibreDev quotes a post where exactly 217 MB RAM is reported.

Later Lunduke even posted a video about it.

As I use similarly low resource setup with Openbox/Tint2/Dzen2 setup (documented FreeBSD Desktop here) I was wondering … how low can I go with FreeBSD RAM usage.

Lets try …

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