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I imagine it was put into your device as a recovery drive. So maybe Ventoy & a lightweight ISO of your favorite distribution?
This reminded me of my old friend DSL, had to check up on it. Didn't realize they re-released it!
https://damnsmalllinux.org/
No longer at the 50MB size, but still 700MB would be great for a small OS on this odd piece of older hardware.
There is Tiny Core Linux if you want something small like the original DSL.
It's 2025, the EFF and certbot exists, but no https? Interesting.
Any who, thanks. I'll check it out, but I'm a little bit turned off by the above.
I didn't see any way if posting data, so I guess there's not really a reason for them to use ssl. Their forum is using ssl at least.
Incredibly simple, free, and quick thing to add for user confidence. Doesn't sit well with me they can't be bothered, what else does that attitude apply to in the OS?