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Old 17th January 2012
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I recommend you play with the BSDs and determine which ones meet your needs with your small memory sizes. Use virtual machines to determine what your application set requires, and what is possible.

The monolithic OpenBSD/i386 kernel (uniprocessor or multiprocessor) is 8.5MB. So 8MB would be too small. I have not run a 16MB Intel based machine in some years, but I would suppose that 16MB could be a possible minimum.

Note that for OpenBSD, Intel 386 CPU support was dropped some years ago. The oldest technology supported is Intel 486 and its clones.

Don't use the memory requirements outlined in my OpenBSD live media FAQ -- that memory requirement is significant due to memory based filesystems. (link in my .sig.)
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