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back in 2002, I built a floppy that had a linux kernel (2.4.18-rc4) with multiple ethernet drivers (back then tulip was taking over the 100mbps ethernet world,
by compsciphd 6y ago
back in 2002, I built a floppy that had a linux kernel (2.4.18-rc4) with multiple ethernet drivers (back then tulip was taking over the 100mbps ethernet world, so pretty sure that was included, as well as the 3c509 driver), X (vesa driver), busybox (or proto/fork busybox), rdesktop to build a a thin client on a floppy. I even had a version that was able to squeeze in vncviewer by using the over 1.44MB modes of writing floppy disks.
the project's point was to showcase stripping shared libraries of unused symbols to get the per binary density of statically linking across one's entire set of binaries. (useful for saving space on embedded systems) i wouldnt claim that it was unique (I believe Debian did something similar), but was a fun project.