Subj : don't forget to say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
To   : August Abolins
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Wed Dec 10 2025 19:05:02

Hey August!

> I've only been using different live-CD versions from time to time

I've known people that ran those as their default linux system(s).  Personally I find them useful for a temporary boot to run maintenence and the such.  I believe the first live cd was an early slackware, version 3.something-or-other.  They also had a bootable zipdrive in just under 100M.  As far as I am aware, slackware is still the best in this department.

> supported the 64bit command-set support on basically just 4GB ram max

For a modern 16 penguin system with all the development tools/libs etc. 32G would be my minimum.

> but a 32bit OS might be more logical for that one.

I disagree.  If ram is the limitation then I would stick to the basics on that one but for sure would expect it to be pure 64 bit.  I wouldn't have it any other way.

Дуже груви, 
Maurice

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