Or Puppy Linux! The first day I popped that CD drive in and was able to run the internet browser ten times faster than I ever could on my decrepit family computer was a magical moment for me. It made me realize just how much power was being wasted on things I neither knew nor cared about under the surface.

I liked this post about Puppy Linux so much it's linked on my home page (nvm that i dont have any other pages):

https://artemis.sh/2022/07/15/decision-making-is-finite.html

Might have less to do with the post and more to do with my own fond memories of Puppy and it's community

Today I used the opposite approach. I began with Debian, next SuSE8, Knoppix, Aurox, Debian Sarge for lots of years, and, after OpenBSD, I use Hyperbola with a pretty sparse cwm with uxterm, links+, and for music/podcasts I use two scripts: sfeed_download, anonradio, tpradio and amused playing my collections at random. No bling bling, almost no features with sfeed.

muLinux (live distro based on a modular set of floppy disks, including X11 and gcc... and somewhat questionable English grammar) and the Knoppix CD and later DVD were pretty cool too. Oh, and tomsrtbt, "the most GNU/Linux on a floppy disk"!

Then there was Nehabodi, Nethack 3.4.3 in a floppy disk.

That's a name I haven't heard of in a long while http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ 50MB ISO, last release was in 2008, a year before the first version of MiniOS came out.

I remember burning that 50MB iso on a credit card sized CD an carrying it in my wallet all the time back then...

DSL was one of my first Linux distros. Loved the small credit card size cd it had.