Either pxe netboot or usb or installable. Immuttable or not. Ramfs. With a host selector or fully auto login ?
Ultra light 16 to 128mb storage 64-128mb ram. Or “full sized”
And lastly, something like that, but that would run on a proxmox host.
You could throw something together with Alpine Linux
I second this, Alpine is seriously tiny!
The only one I ever used was https://ltsp.org/ , but it’s been years, so I have no idea how it’s doing now. It was great for thin clients.
- Choose Fedora uCore
- Merge Sunshine from the Bazzite project
Result: automated uCore + Sunshine image, always up to date and ready to flash on a thumbdrive.
Have a look at thinStation
Porteus kiosk thin client might be an option.
You can’t display things and run in a low memory footprint. That’s not how it works as you need a buffer.
What are you trying to do? You could build a custom image but that it likely harder than you need.
“64-128mb ram” is hardly “low memory”!
For video it is. Unless you want your desktop to be in 128p
It’s probably plenty for vnc or spice though. I had a 486 with 8mb of video RAM that could do 1024x748 display resolutions…
Know you can’t. That would require 12mb of ram for a single frame. In reality you need lots and lots of frames with hardware decoding plus network overhead.
Not to mention that CPU would be way to slow to run anything but the bare Linux kernel (the kernel requires 8mb)
1024x768x24bit is 2.4 MB
