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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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ACK. There are some smaller Puppies out there, but I chose the Ubuntu-based Puppy because it's a little unique among the tiny distros: a tiny Ubuntu flavour for < 300MB. I figured since I'd already covered distros that worked really well on under 1GB RAM, I'd throw Puppy into the medium-sized pile.
Most of these "tiny" distros are actually a spectrum to begin with, and obviously after customization, the sky's the limit.....which is one of many reasons why Linux is so great.
Arch didn't make the list only because it doesn't tend to advertise itself as a tiny distro. I wanted to avoid listing any distribution that has the option for a "minimal install" or even defaults to a minimal install, and favour distributions that intend to provide a full-on usable Linux in a tiny package. It's just an arbitrary choice made for a set of arbitrary rules I set in place for myself while writing the article.