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So then, there's Dahlia OS. This would seem to be exactly what I'm after, essentially a shell to make Fuchsia "livable", maybe not daily driver standard (of course not, this is a research OS) but definitely able to perform the tasks of quotidian life. But everything that's available from the main site is actually built on a Linux core (the implication being that they'll move it over to Zircon/Fuchsia once Fuchsia... Source: about 1 year ago
Yeah Distros in the end are all pretty much the same things, yet there all a couple of interesting projects which are experimenting something new. For instance Fedora Silverblue, or Dahlia OS. Source: about 2 years ago
There are lighter options, Porteus can is ~300MB for a desktop system. Source: over 1 year ago
Porteus is also designed for this purpose. Loads into RAM and is very fast. Source: almost 2 years ago
Or use a disposable os in a usb key like this one http://porteus.org/. Source: almost 2 years ago
Porteus is what I've been playing with, as it is impressively tiny, but there are many options. Source: over 2 years ago
Porteus seems to be still supporting 32 bits. Source: almost 3 years ago
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DietPi - Dietpi is a debian based operative system made to install new apps easyer.
FatDog64 - FatDog64 is the lightweight 64-bit multi-user Linux distribution.
TinyCore - Simple operating system based on Linux that uses "modules", and loads everything into RAM. Can be persistent too.
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DebianDog - DebianDog is very small Debian Live CD shaped to look and act like Puppy Linux.