Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[Peter]

One of the smallest default installs I managed was Slackware onto a 20M 
hard disk on a i386sx with 8MB ram. Text only of course. When the 
installation ran the disk was nowhere near full. I had one h**l of a 
time getting that going with no *nix installation experience and no 
books ;-)

The smallest I managed was a single-floppy linux made from a 1.2.13 
kernel that I patched with a gzipped root file system extractor by Petri 
Matilla (sp?) that I found somewhere. This booted a gzipped rootfs 
without a bootloader (to save space). I made that nearly ten years ago 
and I still find uses for it although I no longer have the toolchain to 
rebuild it ;-)

Peter
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