> The image itself piCore-16.0.0.img is only 101MB in size, which is really small compared to Ubuntu server > is this the smallest possible OS out there? The an

> The image itself piCore-16.0.0.img is only 101MB in size, which is really small compared to Ubuntu server > is this the smallest possible OS out there? The answer to this is: no, but the alternatives are to use stripped back versions of the Linux kernel, and I don’t feel too comfortable doing that yet, but who knows perhaps in the future I might revisit this article. Having grown up with hobby computers whose OS typically fit into 16KB of ROM, I find it hard to believe that an OS for a fixed type of hardware needs to be over 1MB in size (64x larger) to support a webserver for static web pages...