back when I was a grad student, I fit linux (+ handful of ethernet drivers), X, vncviewer and rdesktop on a single floppy. Simple OS project demonstrating that

back when I was a grad student, I fit linux (+ handful of ethernet drivers), X, vncviewer and rdesktop on a single floppy. Simple OS project demonstrating that one can strip out unwanted symbols from shared libraries and get better overall storage resource usage than simply statically linking all of one's binaries. Basically a thin client on a bootable floppy.