“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 :)

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dddw 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I remember qnx

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smilespray 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Full network stack and a web server on a 1.44MB floppy!

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dredmorbius 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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...>

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d3Xt3r 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

	▲	userbinator 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The problem is it wasn't really compatible with anything else, at a time when DOS/Windows and Unix-likes were the most common.