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Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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518 points LorenDB | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 14:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gardnr ◴[06 Dec 25 16:24 UTC] No.46174504[source]▶
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.
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ddalex ◴[06 Dec 25 16:46 UTC] No.46174684[source]▶
I never understood how that QNX desktop didn't pick up instanntly, it was amazing !
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1. RachelF ◴[07 Dec 25 18:57 UTC] No.46184078[source]▶
As someone who used QNX back then, they didn't target end-users but embedded and real-time users.

They were expensive too. You had to pay for each device driver you used.