@ Deneidez
Although I love the Linux open source community, it's not an efficiently written option neither. Check out QNX instead which also shares many common features as well as far more modern other features in addition.
Here an older version with GUI system booting from solely 1.44 MB diskette (no harddrive or CDROM required). 8 MB of Ram is enough:
http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html







