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Making Smallest Possible Linux Distro (x64) - YouTube (youtube.com)
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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wow, it (1.3mb) can fit on a single 3.5" floppy.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 3 points 5 days ago

Who remembers Freesco?

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I would just like to take this opportunity to let people know that the creator of Damn Small Linux has revived the project recently with a larger but modern yet still damn small distro.

https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

(It has a GUI and stuff, so it's significantly bigger than the distro in the video.)

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

If they used mescc-tools, gnu mes and M2libc.

They could have had a full Unix environment in even less space