w84death

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Indie Game Developer, Pixel Artist

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Comment · 4 months ago

Confirming.

Also the goal was to run LATEST kernel with no changes - just config. With other compression algorithms it was impossible to fit everything into a floppy. And I really wanted to have nano and some space to save few files. Without this it would be totally not usable OS.

Comment · 4 months ago

exactly that: too complicated.

also I got 486 DX2/66 as my first PC so I set that as a goal. Then checked how lower can I go. Also I only have 486 DX4 now to test on real hardware.

Comment · 4 months ago

Isn't it still alive in automobile/infodesks?

Comment · 4 months ago

QNX is to this day the biggest "floppy" thing I ever saw.

I would love to have a modern recreation of it.

Comment · 4 months ago

Thanks again for being featured here!

Nice to read all of those comments. The project goal is more to learn how to make your own Linux distribution than to fit as much as possible on a floppy. It is fun to have a fully working OS at the end of this learning experience. Floppies are easy to use and just cool :)

There are a lot of better suited distributions for size and memory usage. What makes FLOPPINUX stand out is the complete tutorial to follow and then make your own changes on top of it. Learn and have fun!

Comment · 1 year ago

I did not realize but I made an equivalent of a OS for writer deck that fits on a single floppy!

https://krzysztofjankowski.com/floppinux/

It boots latest Linux, spawns console and have Vi for editing persisted files on that boot floppy. Runs on 486 CPU.

Comment · 3 years ago

I've updated the code to stable version moments ago!

Official homepage is here: https://smol.p1x.in/os/

Comment · 4 years ago

I got obsessed with Stable Diffusion. I get past the honeymoon period generating everything I could imagine, and now I'm trying to actually incorporate it in my daily work. Furthermore, I'm sharing my experiments here https://bits-next.p1x.in/generating-perfect-grass-textures.h...

Another new and exciting thing for me is the Gemini protocol. The simple, low-tech internet. I started porting all my texts/websites to my own capsule at gemini://floppy.p1x.in (server from real 3.5" floppy!)

Comment · 4 years ago

Dockers:

- lychee - pohotos

- nginx-proxy-manager - proxy/letsencrypt

- jellyfin - movies

- audiobookshelf - audiobooks

- nextcloud - news/talk

- ghost - few blogs

- httpd - many private and commercial web pages

- domistyle/tor-browser - easy access to TOR

- exatorrent - downloading linuxes ;)

- m4yur/mindmaps - mindmap

- portainer - administrating all those dockers

Comment · 4 years ago

https://krzysztofjankowski.com/

I got into the 512kb club at orange group (<250kb) https://512kb.club/#250 :)

Comment · 5 years ago

Updated images: https://bits.p1x.in/floppinux-update-0-2-1/

With sample application and KIOSK mode.

Comment · 5 years ago

Did you try qemu-system-x86_64 instead?

Comment · 5 years ago

It could be 2 things:

- you compiled some parts in 64 bits and try to run the QEMU 32 bit system. Try qemu-system-x86_64

- you do not enabled starting #! scripts in the kernel

Comment · 5 years ago

Nice catch! Thanks.

Comment · 5 years ago

I ended up building the whole system on a 32bit old laptop and just don't care about the problems with installing missing 32bit libs on my 64bit system.