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Icaros Desktop running from a RAM disk 2016-10-17 17:33:05 Post No. 57116999
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Icaros Desktop running from a RAM disk Anonymous 2016-10-17 17:33:05 Post No. 57116999 [Report]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH91CSpB9ZE

Just caught this half-year old video.

Why don't we use RAM disks for the OS any more? These days the amount of RAM that could be affordably owned is larger than any install should be by a wide margin, and SSDs can throw around data like nobody's business.

So why no RAM-disk OSs?

Anonymous 2016-10-17 17:59:13 Post No.57117383
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Anonymous 2016-10-17 17:59:13 Post No.57117383 [Report]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_that_run_from_RAM

Anonymous 2016-10-17 18:08:16 Post No.57117532
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Anonymous 2016-10-17 18:08:16 Post No.57117532 [Report]

The same reason we don't have the operating system in ROM any more: constraints.

Imagine a modern programmer having to work an OS in to a certain size, and they simply CAN NOT go over that. So despite the obvious advantage to the user in terms of speed and responsiveness, it wont happen.

Anonymous 2016-10-17 18:31:55 Post No.57117826
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Anonymous 2016-10-17 18:31:55 Post No.57117826 [Report]

Ram disk is close enough

Anonymous 2016-10-17 19:00:50 Post No.57118229
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Anonymous 2016-10-17 19:00:50 Post No.57118229 [Report]

>>57117532
16G or 32G if RAM is more than enough for everything.

Anonymous 2016-10-17 19:08:01 Post No.57118337
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Anonymous 2016-10-17 19:08:01 Post No.57118337 [Report]

>>57118229
>Windows 10:
>Hard disk space: 16 GB for 32-bit OS 20 GB for 64-bit OS

Which means you'll be left with 12GB of RAM for anything that's not the OS.

See? No amount of big numbers can stand in the way of shitty and bloated programming.

Anonymous 2016-10-17 19:20:36 Post No.57118497
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Anonymous 2016-10-17 19:20:36 Post No.57118497 [Report]

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>Want to use a small portion of my SSD for loonix
>have very basic/limited knowledge of loonix
>just want to ricemyshitupfam.webm, browse the four chins and manage mail.

What distro should I get, /g/?

Anonymous 2016-10-17 19:21:40 Post No.57118512
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Anonymous 2016-10-17 19:21:40 Post No.57118512 [Report]

>>57118497
Disregard, wrong thread.