Comment by znpy
8 days ago
“Floppydistros” were a thing back in the day.
When i was 12 or 13 in the very early 2000s i tried to download something called “coyote linux” (from sourceforge iirc) and boot it on an internet cafe pc because i really wanted to try this linux thing.
But i was very nooby and of course it mostly didn’t go anywhere. I have vague memories of maybe getting it to boot, getting a shell and then not know what to do with it.
Fun times :)
I used to run tomsrtbt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomsrtbt) from a floppy on an old 486 hooked up to a monitor and keyboard for use as a terminal. Was nice and silent, pretty convenient to be able to just turn the screen on to check irc or whatever.
I remember qnx
Full network stack and a web server on a 1.44MB floppy!
And a Javascript capable HTML4 browser, and a decent-looking and performant GUI desktop too.
It's a shame QNX (desktop) died, used to be way more performant and stable compared to Linux or anything else back in the day.
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Do you recall which browser?
BrowseX, written mostly in Tcl/Tk, was included in one microdistro. Probably LNX-BBC, per Wikipedia.
<https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/BrowseX>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card#Operati...>
QNX is to this day the biggest "floppy" thing I ever saw.
I would love to have a modern recreation of it.