[Coco] OT Linux question

[Louis Ciotti]

DSL:  50MB live CD
Puppy: 100 MB

Smallest I have found but not tried are these two
TTY LINUX is 13MB
Tinycore is 10mb...

Tinycore looks interesting since it has a GUI.


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Frank Swygert <farna at amc-mag.com> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:27:32 -0400
> From: Louis Ciotti<lciotti1 at gmail.com>
>
> <snip>
>
> Initially one of my draws to Linux was that fact it was not overly
> bloated.  It has lost that now with each major needing at a minimum
> somewhere around 100mb just for the install media.  My first introduction
> to linux fit onto a hand full of floppy disks, and I used on a headless 486
> to act as a router to share my internet connection, this was before routers
> before those became cheap throw away boxes. It ran flawlessly for 5 years,
> the last 3 months the hard drive failed and I had no idea, it just kept
> running until the power failed.  That worked with noting but a CLI.  Now a
> minimal linux distribution for a CLI only interface would never fit on a
> small mound of floppies.  It seems to me somewhere the idea of tight
> efficient code got lost, but this is coming from someone who has only
> dabbled in writing software code, maybe I am wrong on that.
>
> ========================
>
> There are several small Linux distros that don't take many resources to
> run and are mainly targeted at compact installations and/or older hardware.
> DSL (Damn Small Linux) is one, Puppy Linux is another. Search for "small
> linux distros" and more will come up.
>
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