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I’d love to know what the smallest OS is that can boot on an old MacBook, get to network (wired or wireless), and includes a basic browser (tui or gui) even if
by coderatlarge 2y ago
I’d love to know what the smallest OS is that can boot on an old MacBook, get to network (wired or wireless), and includes a basic browser (tui or gui) even if it doesn’t drive all the onboard hardware. That feels like it would be an excellent learning platform.
- yencabulator 2y agoNot vouching for it working on a MacBook, and it sure ain't "modern", but you might love poking around in QNX. 1.44 MB was plenty for everything. https://crackberry.com/heres-how-qnx-looked-1999-running-144mb-floppy https://crackberry.com/heres-how-qnx-looked-1999-running-144... These days, most people would run it in qemu, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqILeQ-Cg-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqILeQ-Cg-A
- coderatlarge 2y agothanks - in that vein there's also freeDOS. but I assume if someone had built a learning OS they could make it much smaller? haven't tried: http://randomcomputerbits.blogspot.com/2008/02/tutorial-installing-freedos-on-intel.html http://randomcomputerbits.blogspot.com/2008/02/tutorial-inst...
- yencabulator 2y agoDOS just isn't much of an operating system, it's more like a bunch of helper functions preloaded into RAM, and you're free to do whatever you want with or without them.