[ Thanks to John
Gowin for this link. ]
“If you’ve ever been stuck on the freeway with a flat tire and
no jack, you know what it’s like to have a Linux system crash and
not have a boot disk. And although nearly every Linux distribution
company asks you make a boot/recovery floppy when you install Linux
for the first time, many users skip this important step. Out of the
boot/recovery disk concept was born the Mini-Linux
distribution.“Although there are no standards for Mini-Linux distributions,
it should be noted that they fill several niches for general Linux
use and administration. In this article, we’re going to look at
three Mini-Linux distributions and the niches they fill. These
niches include security, crash recovery and general administration.
We’ll also tell you where you can download these little gems and
how to install them on a floppy for use on any system with a floppy
drive…”