Damn Small Linux 2024

• meta-raspberrypi

  73 494 8.3 C

  Yocto/OE BSP layer for the Raspberry Pi boards

• dillo

  9 242 8.8 C++

  Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser

  

I'd put this dillo fork:

https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• mu

  29 1,343 4.3 Assembly

  Soul of a tiny new machine. More thorough tests → More comprehensible and rewrite-friendly software → More resilient society. (by akkartik)

Depending on how minimal a distribution you want, a few years ago I had a way to take a single ELF binary created by my computing stack built up from machine code (https://github.com/akkartik/mu) and package it up with just a linux kernel and syslinux (whatever _that_ is) to create a bootable disk image I could then ship to a cloud server (https://akkartik.name/post/iso-on-linode, though I don't use Linode anymore these days) and run on a VPS to create a truly minimal webserver. If this seems at all relevant I'd be happy to answer questions or help out.

• buildroot

  51 2,476 10.0 Makefile

  Buildroot, making embedded Linux easy. Note that this is not the official repository, but only a mirror. The official Git repository is at http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.

  

• linux-xtensa

  1 134 10.0 C

  Linux port for xtensa architecture. None of these branches are stable.

- https://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa/commits/xtensa-6.4-...

• elks

  25 922 9.6 C

  Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset - Linux for 8086

ELKS supported MMU-less operation on 8088 and 80286 machines, but I don't think an ARM port exists: https://github.com/ghaerr/elks

• elf2flt

  1 69 3.3 C

  ELF to bFLT (binary flat) converter for no-mmu Linux targets

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• void-packages

  671 2,374 10.0 Shell

  The Void source packages collection

  

I was looking for a lightweight OS to run on old Asus Eee PC 1005 HA, which uses a 32-bit Intel Atom N270 processor. I installed Void Linux (https://voidlinux.org/).

I may give DSL 2024 a try and see how it compares.

• colima

  110 16,793 8.2 Go

  Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

You might look into CoLima as a way to get started.

https://github.com/abiosoft/colima?tab=readme-ov-file

Its user interface is Docker-like, using containers.

For full desktop, I've only used the commercial app "Parallels", which can set up an Ubuntu desktop for you. Also Fedora and Alpine and Debian I believe.

But

> I don't really have any resources to share. I just know how to boot a vmlinuz with an initramfs using QEMU, and decided to download the Linux kernel source code and try compiling it.

I highly recommend working through Linux from Scratch and possibly the Gentoo Handbook. It's a journey.

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