4M linuxes

4M linuxes

Posted May 28, 2004 5:22 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: The RULE Project by martinfick
Parent article: The RULE Project

I have searched around and most lowmem linux projects, like this one, think that extreme lowmem is a 486 with 8MB.

Have you checked BasicLinux? Homepage: http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/

The "DOS version" of the current release claims:
Minimum requirements
Intel 386 or compatible
3 mb RAM
DOS (or Windows 95/98 in DOS mode)

This version of the distribution is unzipped onto a DOS partition. (I have not tried this version, but have run prior BasicLinuxes in slightly bigger machines and they have generally delivered their promises).

ZipSlack (a Slackware variant) also claims to run in 4M.

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