@dianea personally, I prefer #OpenBox as is part of @bunsenlabs but I can see someone wanting #xfce instead as it's smaller.

• Not to mention, distros like #TinyCore literally run on anything #i486 and up with like 32MB RAM and up.

@aeva I can also recommend @bunsenlabs / #BunsenLabsLinux, #RaspberryPiOS and #TinyCore - in that exact order. (video via @ActionRetro )

• Worst-case just boot @OS1337 …

@adisonverlice it's @OS1337 and also the problem is not to "make an OS" on it's own.

@landley, who maintains #toybox, has an exellent talk going over how #mkroot, which is basically the minimal toybox + #musl / #linux system, can be build relatively quickly, but that's how you make some #embedded system.

• He did not just do #LinuxFromScratch and half of Beyond Linux from Scratch to evidence it can be expanded to arbitrary complexity, but that doesn't make it a #distro, much less a desktop one.

Cuz there are thousands of microcorrections, configurations and optimizations even in a super-lightweight distro like #TinyCore (which is based on #BusyBox) and "getting things to boot" is the easy part.

• Cuz I just took @w84death 's #Floppinux documentation and merely substituted BusyBox for toybox.

So most of the hard work had already been done by the @linuxfoundation / Linux developers, toxbox contributors and others.

• But merely getting a shell with blinky cursor to boot isn't considered sufficient for most people these days when we have people who are raised on touchscreen-based GUIs…

And there is the major workload!

@joepie91 nodds in agreement because not everyone has $$$$ to spend for a smartphone and with very, very few exceptions phones < € 500 and espechally < € 250 are essentially manufactured eWaste to a degree...

• And that doesn't have to be this way!

I don't expect some € 75 shitphone from Aperzon or ShitExpress to rock the latest secure #Android version but like the equivalent of #TinyCore (i.e. #postmarketOS) should be in the cards so people ain't stuck with a trivially exploitable piece if tech but at least a useable tool.

• I know the folks at #GrapheneOS are well-meaning when it comes to tying their #Aftermarket-#Firmware to few devices with very specific security requirements in hardware but that's just not feasible for the masses.

@distrowatch

🖥️ spirit OS included software

🌐 @dillo An ultra-light web browser for very low-resource systems

🔗 https://spirit-os.sourceforge.io/

#spiritOS #tinycore #tinycorelinux #dillo #linux #distro