Minimax 20060326-beta
"Minimax is a Linux distribution which completely fit to an initrd image, because of this it can boot in every situation, which you can imagine. It is ultra small (32 MB), but very power full. It contains 2.6 kernel with ALL modules and balanced set of console utils, no X server. Download it here here
Why is unique:
* Very small, only 32 MB
* Very good hardware support, see kernel config.
* Fits to initrd, can boot on strange SCSI/SATA/USB disks
* Can be added to /boot partition very easy
* System runs from ramdisk
* Contains only console utils, no x server, see packages
* Modern architecture: kernel 2.6, udev with autosymlinks, module autoloading, based on Arch linux
* Based on uclibc and busybox
Some key software:
* Full 2.6.15 kernel with modules, with autodetection and udev. Takes about 60% of livecd size.
* Installer for Arch linux
* wifi drivers and utils: hostap,wlan-ng, madwifi, ndiswrapper...
* Grub as main bootloader
* Midnight Commander
* Links2 - text and graphic web browser
* FBI - an image viewer
* CenterICQ - an excelent client for icq,msn,jabber...
* Music on console - player with mp3,ogg and online streaming support
* Bash burn - an cd record console frontend
* Partimage - disk mirroring tool
* Reiser4 support"
http://www.kotek.net/minimax/packages.php
http://www.kotek.net/minimax/changelog.php
http://www.kotek.net/minimax/down/ - download