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I love lightweight distros. QNX had a "free as in beer" distro that fit on a floppy, with Xwindows and modem drivers. After years of wrangling with Slackware CDs, it was pretty wild to boot into a fully functional system from a floppy.
yeah but what can you do with free QNX? With tinycore, you can install many packages. What packages exist for QNX?
« QNX DEMO disk
Extending possibilities and adding undocumented features »
for a moment I thought about a Corel Linux revamp :)
I would much prefer its final desktop, from Xandros 4, to the Trinity (TDE) desktop fork of KDE 3.
Tiny Core Linux fits nicely on a FAT32 EFI boot partition as a rescue OS.
In around 2002, I got my hands on an old 386 which I was planning to use for teaching myself things. I was able to breathe life into it using MicroLinux. Two superformatted 1.44" floppy disks and the thing booted. Basic kernel, 16 colour X display, C compiler and Editor. I don't know if there are any other options for older machines other than stripped down Linux distros.
Could such a distro support my i486-DX4-100 system with 64MB of RAM? I've been looking for something other than Win95, NT4, and OpenBSD 6.8 to run on this box. :)
Yes. 486 with 26MB for MicroCore (cli) or 46MB for TinyCore (gui). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Core_Linux#System_require...
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Valid points, completely forgot about that part, and even with installation script, I manage to waste a good amount of time downloading and setting things up. Question, I use VirtualBox, but I feel it's kind a laggy sometimes, What do you use? Any suggestion on performance improvements?
Is docker valid for your use case?
OK but I need a Linux with GUI that is less than 1.44MB so it works with my floppy disk.
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I actually considered NetBSD for an old 32 bit box yesterday, so I'm somewhat wise to this world. My first experience with ramdisk operating systems was Puppy Linux back in the early 2010s. Ultimately I'm probably going with OpenBSD for that box. But, NetBSD ISOs are much heavier than TCL ISOs, and so while I'm sure there's a way to get just what I want working in diskless mode, I'm not confident I will have any RAM…
Hi check this https://smolbsd.org/#about Also standard NetBSD ISO might not be useful do check platform specific images.