
Tiny CoreĪt 11MB for a text console and 16MB for a GUI, Tiny Core Linux is almost impossibly small. Here are five tiny distros you owe it to yourself to try. There are plenty of lightweight distributions out there, like Lubuntu, Peppermint OS, and Bodhi, but there's something special about the truly tiny. If you boot a public computer in a hotel lobby or a library from a thumb drive, you'll know your operating environment is secure.


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But tiny Linux distributions are powerful innovations: having an entire operating system drive a computer with less than 1GB of storage and half as much RAM is the ultimate software hack. There are plenty of Linux distributions out there to choose from when you're deciding what to run on a daily basis, yet some are so small that they get little notice.
