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
You are technically correct
The best kind of correct
I think humor should still be truthful, because plenty of people will believe whatever they read online and then repeat it as fact.
Honestly, this could even be a Chinese campaign to make Americans stupider. They’d benefit from that.
The previous paragraph is a completely made-up misinformation - exactly the kind of thing people can easily believe and spread. Which helps nobody. Except China.
I know a guy who got Linux running on a diode.
Some joker will get it to run on a 1N34A.
Requirements are one resistor. Gold band for optimal performance.
I code by laying out gravel patterns for crickets to run through.
Don’t get it twisted
I don’t mean to brag, but I have two of those.
Install directly into the base of the brainstem
Every time I woke up would be like
GRUB RESCUE> _
I will probably be hated for this.
NetBSD’s slogan is “Of course it runs NetBSD”, and with good cause.
I will probably be hated for this
Why?
BSD isn’t Linux.
GNU’s not UNIX
GNU isn’t UNIX
GNU: Not Unix
GNU != UNIX
G!=U
GNU/Linux Copypasta
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
Oh man you got there before me hahaha
You may not like it, but if your distro can’t run on this, it’s bloated.
Linux needs a proper MMU
Is that Old Norse?
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
This made me look up if you could somehow run it on vacuum tubes, sadly not
9 day boot time on a 4004!
He eventually got it down to under 5 days!
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.
Of course you can run it on tubes, in principal, since they do the same as transistors at the end of the day
I guess I more wondered if some madlad had actually done it
Someone has done it this with relays so I don’t blame you for asking.
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.
This meme made me wonder what’s the minimum number of transistors needed to run linux
You can make it go faster by blowing on it.
Or by painting it red.
(Optional)
