But then again it is DietPi 9.11 with XFCE running on a Pi 1B with 256 mb of memory.
Yes I know it is the root account. I wasn’t going to do a full setup. I was watching a movie and had a blank microSD** card I could use for testing.
**Yes microSD because I have one of these. Low-profile microSD card adapter for Raspberry Pi : ID 966 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits
But hey…it DOES run!
I wonder if DSL would run on that (not sure it supports ARMv7 though)
Doesn’t matter if it support ARMv7 as the Pi 1B only support ARMv6.
Over the weekend I am going to put this on a Pi 1B with 512mb of ram and see how slow it is.
As long as you are not watching more than a 720p video the Pi 1B is actually a really good media center with OSMC. I usually have one for watching old TV shows or movies I have seen a million times while I am gaming on another computer.
Right…ARMv6
Would be a good server…running a single docker or something like that…but not much else…GUI’s are usually pretty heavy on the resources.
Either way…VERY cool!
Nope…DSL doesn’t support ARMv6 or ARM at all 
https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
Especially on a 256mb ram device I would avoid running Docker as Docker engine themselves requires around 100mb. Which would nearly half of the available memory, not even counting the os or any container.
Had a little more fun over the weekend. Tried DietPi and RaspiOS on a Pi 1B with 512mb of ram. Noticeably faster than a 256mb Pi but still slow. I do find it interesting how the ram vs swap is used between DietPi and RaspiOS.
DietPi with 512.
RaspiOS with 512.
You could always use zram-tools…it does use some physical RAM, but compresses it actually increasing “available” RAM in the form of swap…
swappiness I believe is the settings to change to adjust how much it swaps
Memory is not the problem for a 512mb ram device. It’s simply the CPU and I/O towards SD card
Not really trying to make the Pi 1Bs run better. I just did this out of curiosity.
The 256mb Pi will most likely just become a display item. It runs a little warm in the case I have for it so it might as well retire.
The 512mb Pis will probably only be used for OSMC since it works well for the way I use it. Maybe one will become a file server.
