Of course some concessions had to made in order cram the latest Linux kernel and build of BusyBox into slightly north of 1 MB, so Floppinux certainly isn’t what anyone would call a daily driver. Every component of Floppinux is pulled directly from the cutting edge, including version 5.13.0-rc2 of the Linux kernel which is literally just a few days old. But most impressively, the project doesn’t rely on ancient software releases like so many other embedded systems do. There’s even a few hundred KB left over on the disk, allowing the user to tuck a few of their own programs and scripts onboard before booting it up. Well that’s what we thought, anyway.īut then dropped Floppinux, a live Linux OS that boots from just a single floppy. Even if you still had a working 3.5 inch drive, surely the size of the modern kernel alone would far exceed the 1.44 MB capacity of the disks, to say nothing of all the support software required to create a usable operating system. There was a time when booting Linux from a floppy disk was the norm, but of course, those days are long gone.
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