ELKS and Fuzix: Linux – and Unix – writ very, very small

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Neither of these OSes is a Linux distro – or even a form of Linux at all – but ELKS is related to the Linux kernel. ELKS is shorthand for theLinux was originally written for Intel's 32-bit 80386 processor family, which typically sported a page-based MMU among other features. Because ELKS doesn't need that level of memory management, it's able to run on the two even older families of x86 chip that predated x86-32: the 8086 and the 80286.

ELKS was started by core Linux kernel hacker Alan Cox, who in the early days of Linux was often called Linus Torvalds'sshows a change of pace in the past few years. After current lead developer Gregory Haerr took over, there have been four releases since 2020, and it's up to 0.7.0.several modern descendants of UNIX version 6 and 7, and ELKS is even smaller – it can fit onto and boot from a 360KB floppy disk.

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