The free software has a problem.

[richb]

Get back on topic folks.

There's some confusion about that I think, but a Chat thread posting was a good call.

Why is there confusion? The title is very clear and does not refer to reindeer herds.

[atomick]

Wow could in all reality be by not seeing any longer Packaged systems laptops netbooks and the sorts no longer support 1,2,4,8 gig of Ram. Simple answer.

it all is based back in time to a small tiny minded individual "Bill Gates" making the rather podium staged comment. No computer really ever needs greater of 640k of ram. for then "Dos" ripped off from Xerox as self and mr Steve Jobs managed to make it work and resell it back to those whom would comply the idea a computer in the home
might become a something like a Microwave unit and TV started to take over Living-Rooms.

Go figure Win-X progression/evolution thru the times. Now super Bloat ware for the computer to running " that other OS " for it to run smooth the minimal requirements are beyond reason. The Lie and feature to Costs of Ram then was rough on the pocket book and bank budget now its pennies to the gig. Division of partnerships between Bill and Steve
Look at Steve Today. Mac still in most all case run off a EEPROM and size can matter. Yet supporting files can then be off loaded to the hard disc or other memory media. ssd m2.nvme etc.
yet linux purs like a sleek Jaguar. fire up Htop or Top and see running memory is under 2gig in memory space used. "Depending"
Even here in write - 64g ram MX 23.6 kernel 6.14.6-1 Virtualbox and guest running with F/Fox logged in here. and well 6.55g consumed. And all that over head cheese. ! Just a thought. Cheers.

[arjaybe]

It must be gratifying to be the instigator of such a long thread.

[Nokkaelaein]

a small tiny minded individual "Bill Gates" making the rather podium staged comment. No computer really ever needs greater of 640k of ram. for then "Dos" ripped off from Xerox

Wah.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22bill ... 40kb+quote

I'll take light-hearted off topic in a chat subsection, over misrepresentations like that, any day. Also: "You can talk about other distros or OS's here (talk or discuss, not bash for any reason)"

It must be gratifying to be the instigator of such a long thread.

Most likely yes.

[j2mcgreg]

You folks had your chance to get back on topic. This thread is now locked. But feel free to start another thread on reindeer or caribou migration patterns if you wish.