Small footprint linux

[Jason Stephenson]

brian wrote:
> For a personal project I'm working on, I'd like to get a "small
> footprint" linux install with a rudimentary window manager and simple
> Ethernet support.  By small footprint, I mean I'd like to keep it under
> 32MB.  Anybody have any experience with something like this?  Pointers
> on where to start looking/downloading?

Can you even get a working X in under 32 MB these days? On my FreeBSD 
box, /usr/X11R6 is 251MB. Granted, I have a couple apps and libraries 
installed but I use a "rudimentary" window manager, Black Box. (By 32 
MB, I assume you mean disk space.) Top says that my XFree86 4.3 
installation is presently using 90 MB of RAM.

I guess XFree86 3.3.6 takes up less space, but still X is generally a 
pig. I'd say skip the X if you want small.

> 
> Thanks...