Had a geek nostalgia moment today.
Ended up looking at the site for Damnsmalllinux.
I was always so impressed with how much actual functionality was packed into those minimalist projects, and I still think their extension system was really clever.
Their extension directory still contains a few packages I created, under an old username.
Live CD distros like this, knoppix, dragonlinux and even microscopic tomsrtbt floppy were among my first tastes of Linux.
@RussSharek i used to carry a tomsrtbt with me all over the place. it was amazing what otherwise-hopeless situations you could salvage with that thing.
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Slitaz is very impressive too for Being small ans full featured
I'm not familiar with that one. What is it based on?
@RussSharek http://slitaz.org/en/ uhm, might be a custom build system on its own.
@RussSharek Hah, years ago I was interested in the Business Card Linux, a distros to our on a BC sized CD. You had 50MB if I remember correctly. I built a variant that removed some stuff and added Emacs instead. 🤓
@RussSharek My first linux was TurboLinux - 1994-95 or so.
Nice.
I think my first actual install, after playing with countless live CDs, zip disks and floppies was a stripped down Debian install.
@RussSharek linux.... but smol! 😲 👍