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The Xwoaf-rebuild-4.0 floppy image booted up for me first try in Parallels. Made me unreasonably happy. Linux 2.2.26 is kind of hilariously old. Linux 2.2 was
by etaioinshrdlu 5y ago
The Xwoaf-rebuild-4.0 floppy image booted up for me first try in Parallels. Made me unreasonably happy.
Linux 2.2.26 is kind of hilariously old. Linux 2.2 was released in 1999.
- smoldesu 5y agoFWIW, it also runs out-of-the-box in QEMU, VMWare and Virtualbox.
- cogburnd02 5y agoWouldn't it work with a newer kernel though, too?
- LukeShu 5y agoGenerally speaking, newer kernels are bigger. Back in the day, Damn Small Linux (DSL) made the controversial decision to stake themselves to Linux 2.4 because 2.6 was just too big and bloated, they said.
- deaddodo 5y agoA newer kernel most definitely wouldn't fit on a floppy. 2.4+ was where they loosened the requirements and kernels started getting into the multi-megabyte territory.
- anthk 5y agoLinux 2.4 could fit in a floppy perfectly. Check NehaBodi, nethack 3.4.3 in a floppy disk.
- deaddodo 5y agoSorry, I meant 2.4 was where they relaxed the restrictions; it wasn't until 2.6 that the kernel was reliably too large to fit on a floppy.
- cogburnd02 5y agohttps://bits.p1x.in/floppinux-an-embedded-linux-on-a-single-floppy/ https://bits.p1x.in/floppinux-an-embedded-linux-on-a-single-... uses 5.13.0-rc2.
- deaddodo 5y agoDoesn't have X Window System.
- Zardoz84 5y agomy first time touching Linux, was when these Kernel versión was new.