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Stable utilities that never require any update.
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Operating systems

This project has views that promote a relatively minimal use of computers. These views align more with certain operating systems than others.

Advisable

  • DOS
    • FreeDOS
      (~ 15 MB, 'LiteUSB' edition)
  • POSIX
    • Minix
      (~ 288 MB, 'x86 CD' edition)
    • BSD
      • NetBSD
        (~ 622 MB, 'amd64 CD' edition)
    • Minimal Linux kernel

Inadvisable

Proprietary operating systems

If the user is not entirely in control of the software, what's the point?

Operating systems using the generic Linux kernel

The generic version of the Linux kernel is enormous as compatibility is a key feature of the Linux kernel.

This extreme level of compatibility is futile in our case. A project that is relatively comparable in terms of compatibility is NetBSD, which provides separate releases per platform.

Compiling the Linux kernel in order to reduce its size is a solution to this problem: an extreme example of this practice is the Tiny Core Linux project, which offers a functional operating system using BusyBox and the Linux kernel starting from only 17 MB.