[aklug] Smallest workable Linux

Right off, let me say that this post is meant to stir up conversation
(see your ideas) rather than find some quick solution. Let's say your
goal was to build the smallest possible Linux system with only the
following criteria:

1. Can read/send e-mail (comfortably)
2. Can surf the Web (javascript unnecessary)
3. Can view images (say, through framebuffer).
4. Can edit files and read/write to disk.
5. Can SSH to other computers.

(Obviously, X11 is not a requirement.) How small could you get this
system? Now, muLinux is supposedly one floppy, yet has X graphics, so
presumably one could shrink this down even more.

I'm thinking, you could cut /anything/ you deem unnecessary. (E.g., why
have support for more than one file system?) So, what software would you
pick and how would you put it together?

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