“The tiny Linux category is filled with excellent, stripped-down
specialized Linuxes for all occasions, from desktops to servers to
routers to Internet kiosks, and everything else you can think of.
They run on embedded devices, router boards, commercial wireless
routers (like the Linksys WRT54G series), PCs, blades, USB sticks,
CDs and the sleek new IDE flash solid-state drives.“A common difficulty with these tiny Linuxes is adding or
removing software and upgrading because package managers are
usually jettisoned to save space. So you have to copy binaries and
libraries to add new applications, and upgrading often means
re-installing the root filesystem…”
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