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on Sept 21, 2019
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Nanix: An idea for a modern, small, Unix-like oper...
Alpine is probably the smallest "modern" Linux distro. 5MB, so 4 floppies worth.
messe
on Sept 21, 2019
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That 5MB figure doesn't include the kernel. Usually when people refer to Alpine being only 5MB they're talking about running it inside of a container/chroot.
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