Small footprint linux

[Tom Buskey]

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?
> 
> Thanks...

Hmm, I remember running SLS with 8MB or RAM on ~ 100MB disk.  I may have 
even tried olvwm instead ot twm.

Of course, that's very old days and I don't want to go back.  I feel 
cramped in 5GB and 256MB ram nowadays.

Check out some of the small one floppy distributions.  Some fit on Zip 
disks.  I think I've seen a multi floppy with X out there.  You boot off 
floppy then feed in more floppies to install other packages.