The article mentions that this will be possible due to zswap. But SD card failure is a problem that Raspberry Pis are notorious for. Will this swapping wear out the cards and lead to failure even faster?
The Pi4 can boot from usb, so if this is a problem then at least there is an alternative. And a better alternative I might add, as the usb bus speeds are much faster than sd card reads/writes.
Just 2GB of RAM. Seriously, folks, that is NOT a slim Linux system. Linux is getting so obese that it's now considered an accomplishment to be able to run with more RAM than the biggest HARD DISKS of 30 years ago.
In 1992, a typical Sun/SGI/HP/DEC high end ($30-75K) workstation of the day would have around 64 MEGAbytes of memory, and the largest SCSI hard disks available were only 1-2 GB.
You can't tell me that what most people are doing on a Raspberry Pi wouldn't have been perfectly possible on a machine of that caliber.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 22.6 ms ] threadIn 1992, a typical Sun/SGI/HP/DEC high end ($30-75K) workstation of the day would have around 64 MEGAbytes of memory, and the largest SCSI hard disks available were only 1-2 GB.
You can't tell me that what most people are doing on a Raspberry Pi wouldn't have been perfectly possible on a machine of that caliber.
Linux is too fat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ2U0boOucY
Watch 1080p video?