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- inactive, on 03/11/2009, -8/+84The DRM infection alone in Windows is bigger than that.
- masonga95, on 03/12/2009, -2/+52Well, Damn Small Linux just got owned.
- inactive, on 03/12/2009, -4/+46"maximum internet speed" does not depend on the size of the operating system.
- vicsvenge, on 03/12/2009, -2/+33they should get this to work on the iphone or ipod touch at least. that would be nice. Get an external keyboard for that sucker and ya got a full computer to stick in your pocket.
And yes I'm drunk. - unitedkronos, on 03/12/2009, -2/+27Throw TrueCrypt, Firefox, Tor and Freenet in and you'll have one mean mother of a private OS.
- mrsteveman1, on 03/12/2009, -0/+23Yea what the hell are those guys thinking? I mean, 50MB, thats so last week. 10MB is the new hotness.
- scriptcoder, on 03/11/2009, -3/+21Nice. Seems pretty usable as well.
- SavannahLion, on 03/12/2009, -1/+17It's not about having a 512MB USB stick or a 200MB CD. It's about making another tool in a collection of tools that much smaller.
- DrivingVertigo, on 03/12/2009, -2/+16QNX did this, and it fit on a 1.44mb floppy.
http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html - mrsteveman1, on 03/12/2009, -0/+12The page you pointed to is the source, which is ***** HUGE. When you compile it for a specific machine though it goes way down, the core binary image for most linux distros is under 10mb.
The firmware for many routers is linux, and sometimes it is under 2.4mb including the kernel, some userspace tools, an httpd and the routing/firewall controller tools. - ZombieSociety, on 03/12/2009, -0/+12Could you pass the Cool Hwip?
- Rekutyn, on 03/12/2009, -0/+12The idea is that you will customize it, install apps, and create your own files.
- goeric, on 03/12/2009, -4/+15Linux, ***** ya!
- Toshibi, on 03/12/2009, -0/+10It's got the 2.6 Kernel. Means it's a fairly modern Linux distro. If you don't mind compiling you can build a pretty nice system out of this...hell, it's an easier jumping off point than Linux From Scratch which still gives me nightmares.
- IllBeBack, on 03/12/2009, -0/+10Tiny Elvis approves of Tiny Linux.
- inactive, on 03/12/2009, -0/+10an hero
- ArthurSucks, on 03/12/2009, -0/+9You forgot that somethings are just plain fun. Part of the joy of Linux is a learning experience.
- buckrogers1965, on 03/12/2009, -1/+10Sounds like a great base for a distribution. Could be fit onto nearly any BIOS right now too for a fast booting Distro that supports the built in hardware of the board. Throw in a tiny browser and a tiny media player.
- IamNomad, on 03/12/2009, -1/+10OK i ran it. it works as expected and it could be used on old equipment. Now before i make my next statement I've been using linux as a primary OS for about 10 years. Its my job......I have to wonder though, what is the real use of this distro ? Does anyone use a thumbdrive less then a gig anymore ? Maybe as a new cell phone or inbeded device OS ? (think android)
- Culyt, on 03/12/2009, -1/+8Then it would be huge (well compared to 10MB huge). Firefox itself it like 10MB, I'm guessing Tor and Freenet are similar.
Also afaik Freenet is written in Java, which means you need the whole 30MB+ JRE.
☢ - CodyZ, on 03/12/2009, -0/+7This will be great to bring new life to a couple older laptops collecting dust in my closet!
- ThantiK, on 03/12/2009, -1/+7Incorrect. Loading Libraries, drivers, system files in fact DOES hinder performance even for just browsing the internet. The performance loss might be imperceptible to the average user, but then again your average user doesn't care.
If this OS is 10mb - how long do you think it takes to load from power-on? - Probably not all that long. In an embedded device even THIS is perceptible. So yes, "maximum internet speed" *can* depend on the size of the operating system. - inactive, on 03/12/2009, -2/+8define normal?
- Guspaz, on 03/12/2009, -0/+6There are various embedded scenarios where it could be quite useful. There are many devices that have only CompactFlash for storage, and I'd imagine that a 32MB compactflash is probably still about as cheap as it gets. And then there's DOMs (Think, flash you plug into an IDE port), which are really overpriced, so tiny is an advantage. There's various other embedded and network related scenarios I could conjure up.
- Armor1901, on 03/12/2009, -1/+7That's pretty damn neat! Nice work to the developers
- kledge, on 03/12/2009, -2/+8How fulfilling your life must be.
- OrangeTide, on 03/12/2009, -0/+6The printer drives that came with my HP are bigger than that, by about 20x.
I remember running Toms Rootboot. Linux on a 1.44 floppy and fairly usable. Handy when your harddrive was crashed and you needed to use linux and ppp until you save up for a new drive. - tubeguy, on 03/12/2009, -1/+7DSL was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live CD. They never intended it to be smaller.
- bochiman, on 03/12/2009, -0/+6Is OK. There are also other "small" operating systems , but the point is the next one: you maybe already know that Linux Kernel is enough powerful and extensible to allow you to run any type of application, disregarding the compatibility with operating system.
Think about it, how it would be if you have a cell phone with a full featured operating system with less than 10 MB. Or a simple USB drive that you plug in to any other mobile device to enhance the capabilities, but with less resources? QNX makes all the things that Tiny Core Linux does?
I do not think so. - linksus, on 03/12/2009, -0/+6Its soooo fast.
Wicked! - NRDNick, on 03/12/2009, -0/+5I like how it has Opera :)
- duckyinc, on 03/12/2009, -1/+6and it's as functional as normal linux?
- daftman, on 03/12/2009, -1/+6default os for the motherboard maybe?
- Hellahulla, on 03/12/2009, -0/+5Bah, old 'uns ... you think you have it bad, I'm from the future, you're lucky if you can fit an HP printer driver on my 6TB holographic thumb drive. You didn't know you were born!
- Toshibi, on 03/12/2009, -1/+6I think a lot of the tiny distros are just made so they can say "Look how compact we can make Linux and still be functional. Ain't it neat!"
- DannyB, on 03/12/2009, -2/+6Wow, that's so amazing, now I can have a barebone linux installation with no features I would want to use on a convenient CD.
- t0ny, on 03/12/2009, -0/+4200MB for hp printer drives? Last time I had to download them it was 300MB for the 'limited' version and 500MB for the full version.
- bitbytebit, on 03/12/2009, -0/+4who/what is a lintard?
- zubumufu, on 03/12/2009, -0/+4*yeah
- desiv, on 03/12/2009, -0/+4Oh an hoop. Thank you, your bleeding Highness.
- airencracken, on 03/13/2009, -0/+3BasicLinux is unimpressed. :P
http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/
/pretty cool
//even if I don't have a use for it. - Frostek, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3I showed the QNX OS on a floppy to my Microsoft-supporting mate back in the 90s and he didn't say much, although it was easy to see he was impressed.
In the years since then, he's tried Linux and other alternatives to the more mainstream choices, so it was a good thing. - ThantiK, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3I personally see this distro as a good way to start off as a jumping point for your own customized Linux akin to ArchLinux but with much more fine-grained control
Much easier than Linux from Scratch. - Guspaz, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3CLI Linux on a floppy, sure, no problem. You can fit quite a bit into 1.44MB when you're using compression. I figure you'd get about 4MB of usable space out of that taking compression into account. You're not going to be doing any UI stuff with that, but depending on how big your kernel is, that can be plenty. BusyBox, which provides workalike copies of most of the GNU toolkit (wget, vi,tar, gzip, cat, sed, awk, all that good stuff) takes up only 769KB. That's statically linked, no external dependencies. Boom, you've just provided a working Linux system, and you've used up only 18% of the available space. Plenty more for the kernel and other utilities.
- je12u, on 03/12/2009, -1/+4*yea
- inactive, on 03/12/2009, -0/+2It worked on a sens laptop from 1998 including lan, speakers, glx, floppy and USB.......lol
Clean boot, faster than win 98 and runs firefox. - TheWindBlows, on 03/12/2009, -0/+2@myself: Just used it and it is more secure as they allow multi users.
RAM usage at first boot says 28.5MB at 1024x768 True Color
The dock runs smoothly and so on.
Pretty much it is closer to an older Mac OS - freezerburn666, on 03/12/2009, -1/+3oh crap, nevermind, i cant try it, it requires 32MB of ram it says, DSL can do it on 16.... guess i'm stuck with DSL with a ***** old kernel.
- djrbx, on 03/12/2009, -0/+2Just cause it needs double the ram doesn't necessarily mean that it's slower. What kind of system are you running that would have less than 32 MB or ram anyways? Most systems built within the past couple of years have at least 512 MB of ram if not more, which is way more than what is needed.
- je12u, on 03/15/2009, -0/+2“Yea” is a very old-fashioned formal way of saying “yes,” used mainly in voting. It’s the opposite of—and rhymes with—“nay.” When you want to write the common casual version of “yes,” the correct spelling is “yeah” (sounds like “yeh” ). When the third grade teacher announced a class trip to the zoo, we all yelled “yay!” (the opposite of “boo”!). That was back when I was only yay big.
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