I was wondering if there are any small BSD or unix releases. The smallest Linux release I've seen that looked good is partedmagic (around 70MB). Free BSD needs like 4 CDs, maybe more.
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Small Distros
- Tomsrtbt ~1.7M
- Tiny Core Linux 10mb
- miniBSD 80mb
- Jailbait (Linux) 16mb
- ByzanineOS (Linux) 32mb
- Puppy Linux 94mb
- Damn Small Linux 50mb
- Damn Small BSD 50mb
- BerliOS (Linux) 180mb
- Hacao (Linux) 70mb
Single CD BSD Distros
hypoxide
2009-05-04 22:47:50
+1 for up to now being the only one that understood OPs question.
Daniel
2009-05-04 22:54:52
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Yes, there are. Google is your friend.
Example (#1 on google 'bsd small'):
http://code.google.com/p/evoke/ 70MB FreeBSD live environment.
There are plenty more.
markus_b
2009-05-04 22:48:40
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There are a few good tiny linux distros. How small are you looking for?
The first two that spring to mind are Damn Small Linux (DSL) and Puppy Linux.
DSL is <60MB and Puppy is less than 100 MB
Check out Distrowatch for a very comprehensive and handy list :)
ParoXoN
2009-05-04 22:49:23
I believe DSL is actually <50MB, but 50MB is less than 60MB, so you're technically correct.
Chris Lutz
2009-05-04 22:52:23
The best kind of correct!I was just playing with DSL-embedded (for USB keys) yesterday and with qemu etc. it winds up exceeding 50 MB. The standard iso is 49.9 MB though ;)
ParoXoN
2009-05-04 22:56:40
True enough :S I interpreted the question as "do you, members of SO, know of any small unix/unix-like distributions?"
ParoXoN
2009-05-05 03:51:36
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Here's a small linux distribution that fits in 50Mb.
http://damnsmalllinux.org/
Steve Lazaridis
2009-05-04 22:50:26
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You bet.
- DSL ("Damn small linux")
- MINIX (certainly in the UNIX family and some nice modern features)
- there are a number of small to very small Solaris versions
Charlie Martin
2009-05-04 22:57:07
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To say that FreeBSD requires 4 CDs is a little silly. You can use the network installation CD "boot-only" to do an install of any scale for desktops or servers. It's under 50MB. Then, it only has to download the appropriate packages that you need. If you want something a little more custom and one of the requirements is that it be installed without a network connection, I don't think any of the small distributions previously recommended in this thread will be able to offer enough software packages to make it any more viable than a network install of FreeBSD.
Nolte Burke
2009-05-05 04:14:22
Linux provides everything that was in the old UNIX certification tests.
Charlie Martin
2009-05-22 16:09:39
Not to mention that the question mentions the smallest Linux distro he liked. Really, who thinks Linux isn't satisfactorily in the Unix tradition, and why not? (To be technical, only a few OSs can legally call themselves Unix, and I don't know that any of the free BSD distros can. The most widely used thing that's officially Unix is Mac OSX.)
David Thornley
2009-12-03 20:46:59