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UEFI-Tuts
Discontinued YOUTUBE Tutorials on how the UEFI works to boot your own Operating System. Think of this as an EFI Bootloader.
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Stream
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Portable-Linux
Discontinued Guide to install any linux distro to boot BIOS & UEFI and function portably.
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- Minimal Linux Live (MLL) – A tiny educational build-from-scratch Linux
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Gathering raw HID reports - small distro for specific functionality only
I have found Minimal Linux Live. Any opinions?
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DIY Unix since 1991
Minimal Linux Live a project that builds a minimal Linux OS with as few additions as possible.
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Which is the most minimal distro out there?
I did see.. https://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal
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What's the baseline RAM usage these days, around 500 MB?
I run this 8MB .iso in a 96MB Vbox. http://minimal.idzona.com It's just busybox (& kernel). Cool! (I've wanted to tinyconfig+ min for Vbox but too lazy; you could become famous for minimal custom kernel .config for Vbox devices!)
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Arch-based i386 Distro
Maybe have a look at http://minimal.idzona.com DW/mll
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Hey there, I want some help with virtual machines
The b950 cpu doesn't have vt-x (like my N450!) So I run Vbox version 5.x=last and (this)[https://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal/releases/download/28-Jan-2018/minimal_linux_live_28-Jan-2018_32-bit_bios.iso] 32bit busybox-only 8MB!.iso (mll distro)[http://DistroWatch.com/mll] in a 0.1GB ram Vbox. Learn these ash cmds: https://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html wget static binaries, even .deb pkgs or maybe from http://s.minos.io/
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Can I have a VM if I can't Virtualize?
CPU? Use old Vbox 5 & 32bit distro. I do, on MX19 N450 (1GB ram! https://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal/releases/download/28-Jan-2018/minimal_linux_live_28-Jan-2018_32-bit_bios.iso )
- I need help, I need some project ideas
- [Beginner to Intermediate] What should I look for if I want to learn Linux more in depth?
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ivandavidov/minimal is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of minimal is HTML.
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