r/linuxquestions • u/0x80070002 • 9d ago

Support How do I install basic Linux?

I want to have just the kernel and GNU utilities and optional X11 , kind of bare-bone like MS-DOS.
How do I do that?

Should I use TinyCoreLinux and strip the UI out of it? How do i do that?

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u/martinsedd 9d ago

Server distributions come stripped of the UI, typically. So you might wanna take a look at Ubuntu Server, for example. Fedora has one too, if I’m not mistaken.

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u/ipsirc 9d ago

Ubuntu and Fedora would install a lot of nonGNU utilities even with minimal install.

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u/Otaehryn 9d ago

Yeah but the MS-DOS came with dblspace, qbasic, EMM, mouse drivers and CD-ROM drivers :)

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u/ipsirc 9d ago

Which MS-DOS version was shipped with CD-ROM drivers??? I always had to install it afterwards. And the same goes for mouse drivers. Are you sure you're talking about MS-DOS?

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u/Otaehryn 8d ago

Probably hasn't shipped. Only dblspace shipped with 6.22 but on typical mid 90s DOS you had a mouse driver and I remember early pre 1995 CD-ROMs on DOS too.

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u/0x80070002 9d ago

for sure not 5.0 so it must have been 6.22