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I got a bootable NixOS iso down to 91 MB. Pointed Claude at the Nixpkgs repo and asked it to strip things aggressively and inspect the build closure iteratively.

But the resulting ISO:

- has no network

- can't switch configurations

- doesn't have a text editor

https://gist.github.com/siraben/a8fce9912891d85e1ec3cf74081b...

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I miss tomsrtbt and all the other single floppy distros, it was surprisingly complete for 1.44MB (including networking, with more protocols than the average browser, and text editors): https://web.archive.org/web/19990506100919/http://www.toms.n... (mulinux iirc boasted about having 100 commands or something like that)

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