Roughly 15 years ago I worked for a company that made software for set top boxes. If you were lucky, you’d get 128MB of RAM but frequently it was more like 32MB. In that, you’d run the entire...
Roughly 15 years ago I worked for a company that made software for set top boxes. If you were lucky, you’d get 128MB of RAM but frequently it was more like 32MB. In that, you’d run the entire stack: Linux and the application that did UI. These were already beefier than what I was used to coming from the OpenWRT scene, where most routers had much less.
Any Raspberry Pi is already miles ahead of what embedded Linux devices were equipped with 15-20 years ago. Hell, those were even running Linux. There were even much leaner stacks around. It doesn’t feel like much of a feat to run a website from a Pi.
https://lobste.rs/s/fsueos/serving_website_on_raspberry_pi_zero
My god that would have been god-tier in those days. My first Pentium had a whopping 16MB. Well, after upgrading.
Roughly 15 years ago I worked for a company that made software for set top boxes. If you were lucky, you’d get 128MB of RAM but frequently it was more like 32MB. In that, you’d run the entire stack: Linux and the application that did UI. These were already beefier than what I was used to coming from the OpenWRT scene, where most routers had much less.
Any Raspberry Pi is already miles ahead of what embedded Linux devices were equipped with 15-20 years ago. Hell, those were even running Linux. There were even much leaner stacks around. It doesn’t feel like much of a feat to run a website from a Pi.