this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2024
125 points (97.7% liked)
Linux
48334 readers
611 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I work on a codebase larger than the linux kernel and firefox combined and still don't come remotely close to running out of memory on my laptop
That's great, but yours is not the universal experience since different tasks have different RAM requirements, even within the realm of programming. I had RAM shortages when I was running the Haskell LSP server and compiler at the same time on a largish project. Haskell's type checker does a lot more than other mainstream languages' which is how it delivers such strong correctness guarantees. You trade RAM for scrutiny. Then the LSP server has to be fast so it has to do a lot of caching, and you get an additional trade of yet more RAM for speed.
Sure, if you're in very specific workflows, but with how cheap memory is, zram, etc it's hardly a problem anymore for the everyday user
Yes, but some of us aren't the everyday user.
Idk about that. I was talking mostly about Android