[arch-general] Extreme Minimalist Challenge

[Greg Land]

You could also go straight up embedded with
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yocto_Project . This would let you get a
very very small image built.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 01:26 riveravaldez via arch-general <
arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 11/17/19, Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
> > On 11/17/19 6:01 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> >> The project is basically to have the absolutely smallest possible Linux
> >> distro (x86_64 based) that would be a type of LiveCD RAM-Based bootable
> >> system that has an Xserver and VirtualBox 6.0 but no real desktop
> >> running.
> >> I want it to boot directly into the VirtualBox 6.0 GUI.
> >>
> >> The other catch is that I need a system that has an extremely small
> >> footprint image and am hoping that the ISO could be between 150 MB - 200
> >> MB
> >> in size, but of course even smaller is better.
> >>
> >
> > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ is specifically oriented at being the
> > smallest footprint possible. You could also experiment with Gentoo, by
> > configuring the necessary USE flags to disable any features you do not
> > need.
> >
> > Eli Schwartz
> > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
>
> Another option worth trying (in my experience):
>
> Tiny Core Linux
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Core_Linux
> http://tinycorelinux.net/
>
> And maybe:
>
> SliTaz GNU/Linux
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SliTaz
> http://www.slitaz.org/en/
>
> Just for reference:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-weight_Linux_distribution
>
> Best regards
>