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Anyone remember Tom's Rescue Disk? This linux-on-a-floppy was a must-have for rescue and recover back in the day... The web site lives on, but many of the links
by jbuzbee 10y ago
Anyone remember Tom's Rescue Disk? This linux-on-a-floppy was a must-have for rescue and recover back in the day... The web site lives on, but many of the links are 404'd
http://www.toms.net/rb/ http://www.toms.net/rb/
- bluedino 10y agoIt's not Linux, but QNX's demo floppy packed a ton on a single disk. Network drivers, web browser, VESA 2.0 video drivers, a few apps... http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
- nhf 10y agoQNX was ahead of its time. I think it underpinned most versions of the BlackBerry OS and is used in cars / infotainment systems, but I think they would have made a killing in the IoT space if they had developed in another era.
- mcpherrinm 10y agoQNX was only used in BB10, which was only introduced after the fall of BlackBerry's popularity (and, arguably, was part of the reason for their old products stagnating)
- endgame 10y agoFrom that era, I also remember muLinux, which packed quite a lot onto some superformatted floppies. http://micheleandreoli.org/public/Software/mulinux/ http://micheleandreoli.org/public/Software/mulinux/
- amrangaye 10y agoThis comment made me smile - growing up in west Africa this was my first Linux - its modular nature let me download a floppy disk's worth of sub system every week, using the 1 to 2 hours of Internet access that I got for the week, slowly building up from scripting languages all the way up to X11. Fun times :)
- thegeekpirate 10y agoIn case anyone still wants it, I had the latest version backed up: http://www.filedropper.com/tomsrtbt-20103tar http://www.filedropper.com/tomsrtbt-20103tar