look at you with your fancy semiconductor, all i need are some rocks in a desert

Damn I hate when they increase the minimum requirements

It’s funny but it’s not true

Holy crap, I know FOR SURE now that most of you are no fun at parties. Good luck out there lol.

Requirements are one resistor. Gold band for optimal performance.

I will probably be hated for this.

NetBSD's slogan is "Of course it runs NetBSD", and with good cause.

- https://www.netbsd.org/about/portability.html

I don't mean to brag, but I have two of those.

Not quite just a transistor but maybe something like this (an SOC with 32MB ram which costs about $5 in bulk) though it does require quite a bit of additional electronics to work.

Also somebody also made an embedded Linux for the ESP32-S3 (which is even cheaper and doesn't require anywhere as much auxiliary electronics).

PS: Yeah, I got the joke. Just pointing out that the reality itself is quite impressive.

I know a guy who got Linux running on a diode.

This made me look up if you could somehow run it on vacuum tubes, sadly not

But https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Hacker-Successfully-Runs-Linux-on-a-CPU-from-the-Early-70s

9 day boot time on a 4004!

This thing runs arch by the way.

You may not like it, but if your distro can’t run on this, it’s bloated.

You can also wait for quantum fluctuations to randomly compute your thing...

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I thought a 555 was the min spec?

Shows image of a common NPN bipolar low power transistor

You're telling me that a Japanese (Nippon) person with wild mood swings and low self esteem who identifies as a trans sister, also runs Linux? How is this news.

Some joker will get it to run on a 1N34A.

When someone complains about flatpak being bloated I always assume this is what their system is.

Don't get it twisted