<p dir="ltr">Wow! That's tiny!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 2, 2016 9:46 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">There's always Menuet ( <a href="http://menuetos.net" target="_blank">http://menuetos.net</a> ). Fits on a single floppy (even the 64-bit version), includes spiffy GUI interface, audio/video capabilities, internet browser, Doom, et alia.<div><br></div><div>"The design goal has been to remove the extra layers between
different parts of an OS, which normally complicate programming and
create bugs."<br></div><div><br></div><div>System language is x86 assembly, of course.</div><div><br></div><div>-- CHS</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 8:16 PM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djpfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">386sx16 with 1 MB memory for me. I'd guess the HDD was 20MB.<br>
It had X/Windows, barely.<br>
<br>
A few years later and I'd swapped that out for a 486dx/33 - needed the math<br>
coprocessor to do flight simulation towards an instrument rating.<br>
<br>
If you need a lite-distro, consider TinyCore - 12MB includes X/Windows and it<br>
should run on i386 CPU. That Pentium M should fly with it. If you want more in<br>
a distro, look at TinyCorePlus - about 70MB last time I checked.<br>
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On 02/01/2016 07:14 PM, Jim Lynch wrote:<br>
> I agree, my first Linux system ran on a 386sx16 with 8 MB memory and a 30MB drive.<br>
><br>
> No gui desktop however.<br>
><br>
> Jim.<br>
><br>
> On 02/01/2016 06:24 PM, Steve Litt wrote:<br>
>> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:34:32 -0500<br>
>> Boris Borisov <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> He may meant 20GB. Puppy Linux is starting to get fat as well. No<br>
>>> offense here implied. The only advantage us running from USB drive or<br>
>>> memory disk and very comprehensive drivers and firmware collection.<br>
>>> But if you tried latest "quirky" boot up takes forever.<br>
>>><br>
>>> But I guess that is the future OS are getting fat and slow and<br>
>>> thankfully hardware manufacturers are able to put 4-8 cores in chip<br>
>>> for next to nothing.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Slim distro building around busybox is Slitaz. ISO is 50 MB installed<br>
>>> on HDD is around 320. You get desktop file manager browser and<br>
>>> web-based control panel.<br>
>>><br>
>>> But only my opinion.<br>
>> Nobody can argue that today's Linux can run on my 1998 Pentium II<br>
>> 300mhz with 16*M*B of RAM, like Win98 or 1999 Red Hat 5.1 could do. But<br>
>> that sort of misses the point: My Pentium II300 cost me about $2K in<br>
>> December 1998.<br>
>><br>
>> AFAIK, any distro except compile it yourself Funtoo and Gentoo can<br>
>> install and fit on a 16GB thumb drive. I think most current Linuxes can<br>
>> perform simple duties on a computer with 500Mhz single CPU and 512MB<br>
>> RAM, as long as you install OpenBox or fvwm or IceWM as the window<br>
>> manager, and don't use pigs like LibreOffice and Firefox.<br>
>><br>
>> Think about 500Mhz and 512MB: When was the last time anyone sold a<br>
>> computer like that? Over a decade ago. Any commodity desktop or laptop<br>
>> manufactured for general sale since 2006 had at least 1GB RAM and 1Ghz<br>
>> single CPU. My two laptops from that era both have almost 2GHz dual<br>
>> core processors and 2GB RAM.<br>
>><br>
>> In other words, you'd need to try very hard to find a computer that<br>
>> wouldn't run a couple programs simultaneously from any distro giving<br>
>> you a choice of Window Managers.<br>
>><br>
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