I see your gentoo, and present tinyROOT linux, a 1.1 MB linux "distro". [DETAILS AND ISO IN COMMENTS]

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  • tinyroot

    How to make a very small linux bootable drive

    Assorted notes: https://github.com/10maurycy10/tinyroot

  • floppinux

    An Embedded 🐧Linux on a Single 💾Floppy

    I was playing with floppinux about a year ago (and fixing it to actually work on 486 and 586 class hardware, because that's the sort of thing I spend time on). It's modern Linux parts (5.x kernels, modern musl, etc.) that still fits on a floppy.

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  • pifs

    πfs - the data-free filesystem!

    Or πfs

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