What Is The Smallest Usable Os a.k.a. DSL

[melkonianarg 0]

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ find out for yourself, but seems like it could be quite good...impressive size, hehe

Notice from BuffaloHELP:

Edited topic spelling and added more descriptive description.

Edited August 21, 2005 by BuffaloHELP (see edit history)

[David789 0]

a bit weird ... but okay ...

[machinamedia 0]

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://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/)

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://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) - 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://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) - 60MB

LNX-BBC (http://ww38.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://code.google.com/p/ubuntutrinux/) - 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!

[alperuzi 0]

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

[serverph 0]

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.

[machinamedia 0]

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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never heard about that... and i'm not sure that's legal... but... if you will find sumfin please share

[serverph 0]

never heard about that... and i'm not sure that's legal... but... if you will find sumfin please share

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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.

[mizako 0]

Feather linux. That it is small and stable distro.

[brainless 0]

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

[flamette 0]

very true. Theres something to be said about those old OSs

[eXtreme 0]

Interesting.. though i prefer knoppix, it still has a very small size and lots of more features than DSL.Oh, by the topic name, looks like DSL is, well DSL internet.

[Damann 0]

Wow....Thats so tiny...and useless. Why would you want to run something like that? Just boot up normal linux,unless your planning on running it on something like....a phone...or...a PDA. Any senseible person would just use the working, Good operating systems. And yea, the old OSs used to be tiny because they didnt need anything bigger. There werent huge games like Civilization and stuff back then.Well...just my opinion on the matter.

[misa 0]

i have some small OS. The name is Menuet. It's 1.44MB.

[Dynomite 0]

i have some small OS. The name is Menuet. It's 1.44MB.

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Wow, I have songs on my computer bigger than that...

There are really small OS's but they aren't really OS's (does that make any sense to you? me neither) they are called Sub OS's there's one that is no longer avaible for download (at least I don't think so) it's called Midget Sub OS. It's only about 30 KB in size...

[iivosevic 0]

i have some small OS. The name is Menuet. It's 1.44MB.

I have even some images bigger than that.

Btw, the smallest OS that I have is BeatriX 2005.1f . It has 180MB and it's CD bootable like Knoppix. It's funny that developer named this OS after his cat. People do funny things.