 What Is The Smallest Usable Os, a.k.a. DSL |
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  Aug 20 2005, 11:03 PM
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Super Member  Group: Members Posts: 322 Joined: 3-September 04 From: London, UK. Member No.: 1,001  |
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ find out for yourself, but seems like it could be quite good...impressive size, hehe
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Aug 21 2005, 10:06 AM
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Newbie [Level 3] Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: 13-August 05 Member No.: 10,680 |
a bit weird ... but okay ...
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Aug 21 2005, 10:34 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 106 Joined: 24-July 05 Member No.: 9,813 |
I would like to mention some other small usable operating systems. Here we go:
FloppyFW (http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/) - FloppyFW is a router with the advanced firewall-capabilities in Linux that fits on one single floppy disc. GeeXboX (http://www.geexbox.org/) MoviX (http://movix.sourceforge.net/) - The MoviX project is a series of three different tiny Linux CD distributions containing all the software to boot from a CD and play multimedia files through the MPlayer, the best multimedia player in the Unix world. FeatherLinux (http://featherlinux.berlios.de/) - Feather Linux is a Linux distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive and takes up under 115Mb of space. Puppy Linux (http://www.goosee.com/puppy/) - 60MB LNX-BBC (http://www.lnx-bbc.org/) - The LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough to fit on a CD-ROM that has been cut, pressed, or molded to the size and shape of a business card. Trinux (http://trinux.sourceforge.net/) - Trinux is a ramdisk-based Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy or CD-ROM, loads it packages from an HTTP/FTP server, a FAT/NTFS/ISO filesystem, or additional floppies. Cheers! |
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Aug 21 2005, 02:37 PM
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delete me Group: Members Posts: 518 Joined: 18-September 04 From: delete me Member No.: 1,185 |
With Knoppix you get a distro that runs off a CD with window managers and everything else.
As for the single Floppy distros the most famous one is Coyote Linux, but you can also get Debian distribustions that fit on one floppy and have advanced features related to Debian such as their package management systems and apt-get |
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Aug 21 2005, 02:44 PM
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Ancient Enigma  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,786 Joined: 11-July 04 From: under the stars Member No.: 76 |
MS-DOS?
 lolz! i think it fits in one diskette a long-time ago. what i'm interested in knowing is how small can one fit a working version of a windows version (w98/2k/me/xp) in a credit card sized CD.  heard there is a version of it in win98 running under 50MB. will try to search that sometime.
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Aug 21 2005, 03:02 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 106 Joined: 24-July 05 Member No.: 9,813 |
QUOTE(serverph @ Aug 21 2005, 02:44 PM) MS-DOS? lolz! i think it fits in one diskette a long-time ago. what i'm interested in knowing is how small can one fit a working version of a windows version (w98/2k/me/xp) in a credit card sized CD. heard there is a version of it in win98 running under 50MB. will try to search that sometime.  never heard about that... and i'm not sure that's legal... but... if you will find sumfin please share
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Aug 21 2005, 03:21 PM
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Ancient Enigma Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,786 Joined: 11-July 04 From: under the stars Member No.: 76 |
QUOTE(machinamedia @ Aug 21 2005, 11:02 PM) never heard about that... and i'm not sure that's legal... but... if you will find sumfin please share it's not a downloadable ISO, it's something you create yourself, with your own licensed version of windows. so nothing illegal there i suppose, if it's not for distribution, and just for personal use. i will dig through my stuff, i did have that printout of instructions before in doing that with win98. but i didn't have the time to do it. makes me regret not doing it when i recently did a complete reinstall of my windows.
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Aug 21 2005, 10:00 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 372 Joined: 16-August 04 From: Spain Member No.: 824 |
Feather linux. That it is small and stable distro.
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Aug 23 2005, 08:36 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 343 Joined: 16-April 05 From: Wardenburg/Northern Germany Member No.: 5,763 |
just a small hint - those OSes from a time long passed should be bootable from 720k-floppies or smaller disks; there was a time when 720k was much and Bill Gates said that 640KB of RAM would be more than necessary for every user... just imagine how fast an OS from those times would run on modern machines, if it boots at all
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