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BasicLinux
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/
http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/basiclinux/
BasicLinux is a mini-version of Linux that boots from
hard drive, floppy, or CDROM, and runs in a 4meg ramdisk.
It's based on Slackware 3.5 and contains a
fully-featured shell, an easy-to-use editor, and a
variety of useful utilities. It can dial an ISP, browse
the web, send/receive mail, or act as a router/firewall.
Version 1.7 was released May 12, 2002. Version 2.0 was
released February 22, 2003, now based on Slackware 7.1.
hal91
http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/~perle/hal91/
HAL91 -- minimalistic Linux distribution that fits on
one floppy disk. The website is available in English,
German and Italian.
Peanut
Linux
http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/
Peanut Linux is only a 99 Mb. download, packed with fun
and useful applications.
Relax
Linux
http://www.ibiblio.org/relaxlinux/
Relax Linux is a free Linux distribution targeted
towards desktop users. It has compiler tools and
glibc2.1, you can install to a dos loop image (safer for
you windows users) or to a seperate ext2 partition. It's
easy to install and the whole thing fully installed is
less than 350 megs.
TA-Linux
http://talinux.tal.org/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/talinux/
TA-Linux is a small, multiplatform Linux distribution.
It comes with just enough to be usable and it's easy to
customize to some particular use. TA-Linux sparc
pre-0.2.0-test was released June 6, 2002. A major
rewrite of TA-Linux, version 0.2.0-Preview1, was
released July 6, 2002. TA-Linux 0.2.0-Beta1 (Alpha) was
released August 15, 2002. TA-Linux 0.2.0-Beta2 (i386)
was released August 22, 2002. Version 0.2.0 beta 3
(i386) was released February 11, 2003.
Tomukas
http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/tomukas/
Tomukas is a small Linux mini-distribution, featuring
busybox, tinylogin, mc, joe, ssh, X-window with fvwm1
and not much else. Not for beginners.
ttylinux
http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttylinux/
ttylinux is a minimalistic Linux distribution
that can run in as little as 2.88 megabytes of space. It
will provide only a text-based interface, but it enables
you to dial into the Internet and surf web pages even on
a low-end machine. Version 3.1 was released April 8,
2003.
VectorLinux
http://www.vectorlinux.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/vectorlinux/
VECTORLINUX is a small, fast, Intel based Linux
operating system for PC style computers. The creators of
VECTORLINUX had a single credo: keep it simple, keep it
small and let the end user decide what their operating
system is going to be. Version 2.5 was released April 2,
2002. A beta named SOHO was announced as an iso only,
July 29, 2002. SOHO 1.0 was released August 20, 2002.
SOHO 3.2 was released March 19, 2003. VectorLinux 3.2
was released February 6, 2003.
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