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Show HN: Monolinux – A tiny embedded Linux distro

by eerimoq on 10/12/19, 5:32 PM with 17 comments

• by Gys on 10/12/19, 6:16 PM

  As it is 'tiny' I think people expect some kind of size indication?

• by buserror on 10/12/19, 9:51 PM

  The readme isn't really up to date, but many years ago I started minifs to be the smallest, reproducible linux distro I can get away with. With extra tools like a 'cross linker' that removes /anything/ that isn't used on a filesystem before packing it.

  It's mostly bash. And a bit of C for tools. Works on ARM, whatever really, as long as there is a kernel and a toolchain.

  https://github.com/buserror/minifs

• by sys_64738 on 10/12/19, 9:31 PM

  I miss the days of running Linux from a single floppy with a complete development environment.

• by rmdashrfstar on 10/13/19, 3:15 PM

  What makes this different than Alpine?

• by xbhdhdhd on 10/12/19, 6:05 PM

  Cool. ARM?