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kokey on Feb 13, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tiny Core Linux

FreeBSD, where that one floppy was enough to set up a modem and dial up to establish a PPP session and then download the rest of the installation. All while allowing you to open another terminal to telnet to a shell somewhere else and pass the time with e-mail and irc while FreeBSD downloads and installs.

ksec on Feb 13, 2018 [–]

Is there a Tiny Core Version for FreeBSD?

petre on Feb 13, 2018 | [–]

Yes, it's called NanoBSD but you have to build it on a working FreeBSD system. No desktop though.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html

rootbear on Feb 13, 2018 | | [–]

I think they missed an opportunity by not naming it WeeBSD. That's the hostname I gave my pi running FreeBSD.

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