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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 13 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > he discusses how to set up Debian minimally on a 486 
> > with 8M RAM, in 1998, 
> 
> In those days you could install Debian (and Slackware)
> with just 4mb RAM.  I had such a Debian setup running
> before I switched to Slackware.  With Debian the smallest
> installation took around 30mb of HD space.  With Slackware
> I it was around 20mb.
> 
> > which might be of some relevance to basiclinux.  
> 
> Of more relevance to BasicLinux was the recent release of 
> a Debian based entirely on the uClibc libraries.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 

A friend just steered me to www.menuetos.org, which has developed an 
operating system that fits on one floppy disk and is FAT32 written in 
assembler.  Has a GUI for VESa 2.0, or 1.2, or VGA/EGA.  There are also 
applications such as a ppp dialer, games, screensaver, icons, compilers 
(it uses Sphinx C-- which I translated the Russian manual for once), a 
jpeg viewer, and several forums.  Seems to be supported largely by Czechs 
and Russians but they also do Chinese.  Unfortunately the sourceforge 
downloads require javascript (they said to use netscape or explorer).  I 
will try links2 on it.  

I did not read far enough to find out the memory requirement, but it needs 
a 386.