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uL
uL (a.k.a Microlinux) is a tiny (14 MB) Linux distribution providing minimal command line interface utilities. It fits in a few mega bytes and can be installed on the smallest USB Flash drive or on older hard disks.
Lacking in both any X Window management and any specific, cutting edge application, uL obviously does not intend to compete with more comprehensive Linux distributions and, as a matter of fact, is not comparable even with the smaller, better built ones.
Indeed, uL can hardly be classified as distribution, as its main purpose is to serve Linux almost-beginners as a tutorial, as a hands-on guide line allowing to set up a bootable Linux system in a few, simple steps and, even more important, to understand the inner logic of a typical linux system.
Included packages
The current uL release (0.1) includes the following packages: Bash 3.1, Bzip2 1.0.3, Coreutils 5.96, Diffutils 2.8.1, E2fsprogs 1.39, Ex-050325, Findutils 4.2.27, Grep 2.5.1a, Gzip 1.3.5, Kbd 1.12, Linux 2.6.18,
Linux-Libc-Headers 2.6.12.0, Mc-4.6.1, Procps 3.2.6, Psmisc 22.2, Sysvinit
2.86, Tar 1.15.1, Util-linux 2.12r.
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