MicroLinux

Very small Linux distro

Currently at 15.5MB!

Run instructions

Requires qemu-system-x86_64.

Installing

git clone https://www.github.com/Bowuigi/MicroLinux

Running

cd MicroLinux
sh runmicrolinux.sh

Getting the source files

mkdir output
mv initramfs.cpio.gz output/
cd output/
gunzip initramfs.cpio.gz
sudo cpio -idv < initramfs.cpio
rm initramfs.cpio

Notes

This distro aims to be as small as possible while being usable.

You need a decent experience with the command line to do something actually useful with it

Anyway, I added cfdisk to partition the disk easier

You can probably get it smaller by recompiling the kernel's bzImage with minimal settings.

I couldn't get internet working since I don't have an ethernet connection.

Stuff on the distro

Editors: busybox vi, ne (has syntax highlighting)

Disk utilities: cfdisk, busybox fdisk, busybox du, busybox free

File manager: sfm (my favourite)

Text processing: awk, cut

Programming: tcc (C compiler), luajit (Lua interpreter), awk

Internet: udhcpd, wget, ssh/dbclient, dropbear, ftpd, telnet

Pagers: more, less

Other: busybox