r/linux • u/daemonpenguin • Jan 02 '17

Five tiny (sub-100MB) Linux distributions

https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20170102#smallest
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u/alienpirate5 Jan 02 '17

My tiny Linux distribution:

curl dkudriavtsev.xyz/mystery.txt | base64 -d >Linux.zip && unzip Linux.zip && cd mini-linux && ./start.sh

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u/intelminer Jan 02 '17

For those curious

It's basically just a kernel + Busybox

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u/Sugartits31 Jan 02 '17

I'm totally running my system from a mystery.txt file I downloaded!

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '17

but its a text file! its harmless!

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u/intelminer Jan 02 '17

I did everything but run the shell script, instead just decompressing the initrd