On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 16:50:50 -0500 Mayuresh Rajwadkar <m.m.rajwadkar at ieee.org> wrote: > I understand that the typical Linux kernel takes up about 1GB of RAM, > so assume it will run easily in 2GB of RAM That's way off. You can run tidy little system with only 128MB physical RAM total. For example the early Raspberry Pi boards. -- Rich Pieri