On: Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy

[themadsens]

Nice write-up.

Back in the day, there was also LOAF (Linux On A Floppy). [1]

I had a go at it, until I realized someone beat me to the name.

[1] https://linux-center.org/en/distributions/mini-distributions... (Only the index still remains)

[herewulf → themadsens]

I downloaded LOAF and tried it on a 386 circa '98, not really knowing what Linux was. Sadly it didn't boot for some reason because I could have started my enlightenment about four years earlier. Instead I spent the late years of my adolescence struggling to make "terminal" apps with Microsoft compilers. GCC would have been really nice.

[purerandomness → themadsens]

There is also Floppix, and their FAQ lists a few more [1]

[1] https://www.floppix.com/faq.html

[themadsens → purerandomness]

Ah yes, tomsrtbt. I completely forgot about it. It even looks it's still going. Used to have that as a grub boot target, and it has saved my cheese more than once ..

[w84death → themadsens]

Thanks!