Nanolinux Wiki

Nanolinux is a very tiny Linux distribution based on MicroCore Linux with busybox.

It uses Nano-X instead of X11. FLTK 1.3.x is used as the GUI toolkit. The window manager is SLWM.

The following applications are included:
Dillo browser
FlWriter text processing program
Sprsht spread sheet program
FLTDJ personal information manager
FlMusic CD player
FlRadio internet radio
FlChat IRC client
Antipaint paint program
Fluff file manager
NXterm terminal emulator
Flcalc calculator
FlView image viewer
Fleditor
Games: Tuxchess, NXeyes, Checkers, Blocks, Mastermind, Sudoku
Mount tool, system statistics
Software package download and install utility
NTFS support
Grub package for hard disk install
OSS sound, Truetype fonts, UTF-8 support

Nanolinux requires a 486 processor and 64 MB RAM to run.
If 64MB are available no swapfile is required.

Nanolinux runs completely from RAM. So after booting you can remove the Live CD and use FlMusic to play music CDs.

The distribution is currently available as an ISO image.

How to save your data:
https://sourceforge.net/p/nanolinux/wiki/Persistence - save data before powerdown/

Instructions how to install this ISO image on a flash disk are here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/nanolinux/wiki/Install on flash disk/
This allows to boot Nanolinux from a flash disk.

To install Nanolinux on a hard disk see this wiki page:
https://sourceforge.net/p/nanolinux/wiki/Install on hard disk/

Or run Nanolinux in Qemu:
https://sourceforge.net/p/nanolinux/wiki/Nanolinux in Qemu on Windows/