I too saw this. Was able to run it on 256M RAM on VirtualBox. Pretty 
compact (thanks to lofi compression) and usable distro. I plan to have 
this guy installed on a 100M partition on my USB stick - would be useful 
in disaster recovery situations.

A few other notes:

* dtrace didn't work. Missing symbol `kas in unix (/usr/lib/dtrace/procfs.d)
* There was no mdb. If space is a constraint, I would much prefer to 
have mdb instead of emelfm or dillo.
* The ext2fs and ntfs drivers are available by default - nice :-)
* And the biggest surprise of them all: I run XMMS and look at the Input 
Plugins - Lo and Behold libmpg123.so !

If Russia is exempt to US patents, I would very much like BeleniX to 
become Dazbog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazbog) ;-)

Cheers,
Ananth

Anil Gulecha wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A new OS distribution called Milax has turned up. (It was called Damn
> Small OS, but I think the author changed the name, what with the
> ongoing TM saga)
>
> The OS looks great for a 70Mb iso
> http://www.sunhelp.ru/archives/179-MilaX_0.1.1_English_Page.html
>
> What's interesting is this is aligned with Belenix on the small
> footprint goal. Our current miniroot is 65-70Mb file, but the one in
> Milax seems to be much smaller. The 70Mb distro also includes a whole
> bunch of tools like XMMS a VNC like Player, editors etc. I'd make a
> guess that the barebones miniroot is close to 50-55Mb.
>
> Its cool to see a bunch of distros coming up. (The new avatar of
> Martux is another). Thoughts?
>
> ~Anil

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