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		jodrellblank on March 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas RPi is the antitheses of bloat removal, it is desired because it brings enough horsepower to shift "what you want"+"the everyday bloat that needs", in a small package. Things like ddwrt on a netgear router are anti-bloat. Usable networked Linux in a 4MB image with 8MB RAM.

stcredzero on March 10, 2012 [–]

From the standpoint of embedded devices, this is true. By desktop OS standards, not as much.

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