“Mustang Linux, a fork of Buffalo Linux and a newcomer to the
‘mini’ Linux distribution field, achieved a v2.3.1 release earlier
this month. The lightweight distro, which can run entirely from
RAM, is based on a 2.6.16 kernel and offers a choice of desktops,
the project team said.“Like some other ‘mini’ Linux distros, such as Puppy, Mustang
boots from the CD and loads the base operating system into RAM,
without requiring a hard drive. It occupies 168MB of RAMDISK and
requires a system having a 586 (or greater) processor and at least
256MB of total RAM…”