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I got a bootable NixOS iso down to 91 MB. Pointed Claude at the Nixpkgs repo and asked it to strip things aggressively and inspect the build closure iteratively
by siraben 3mo ago
I got a bootable NixOS iso down to 91 MB. Pointed Claude at the Nixpkgs repo and asked it to strip things aggressively and inspect the build closure iteratively.
But the resulting ISO:
- has no network
- can't switch configurations
- doesn't have a text editor
https://gist.github.com/siraben/a8fce9912891d85e1ec3cf74081ba4f6 https://gist.github.com/siraben/a8fce9912891d85e1ec3cf74081b...
- Chu4eeno 3mo agoI miss tomsrtbt and all the other single floppy distros, it was surprisingly complete for 1.44MB (including networking, with more protocols than the average browser, and text editors): https://web.archive.org/web/19990506100919/http://www.toms.net/rb/tomsrtbt.FAQ https://web.archive.org/web/19990506100919/http://www.toms.n... (mulinux iirc boasted about having 100 commands or something like that)