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I prefer to put my swap partition on CD-RW.
That way you’ll know you’ve run out of physical memory when the cd-rom starts spinning up.
Oh, my bad! Goes to show I’m not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.
Not true. For modern Linux you need a processor with a memory controller and 8mb of ram. If also need to be a processor from the 21 century.
Openwrt beg to differ, https://hackaday.com/2022/12/07/a-tiny-risc-v-emulator-runs-linux-with-no-mmu-and-yes-it-runs-doom/
Would it be possible to forgo ram for just swap?
No it is not possible. For a more detailed explanation read here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/928308/is-it-possible-to-use-ubuntu-without-ram-at-all
Btw. If you disable the Intel ME, TPM is nonfunctional.
Yay!