Mungkie Associates has released version 1.2.3 of its single-floppy, open source, GUI-enabled, net-centric embedded Linux distribution, which ranks 62nd overall among the most popular Freshmeat projects, and is Freshmeat's #1 embedded project.

Mungkie initially created the embedded Linux distribution as a means to demonstrate the company's ability to squeeze a rich GUI environment into resource-constrained embedded devices. But judging by the project's high popularity, it seems to have become much more than just a cool demo.

An earlier, now-deprecated release booted from two floppy disks. The latest release boots from a single 1.44MB floppy disk, and, according to Mungkie, contains:

• Full featured graphical web browser with ssl support
• File manager
• Rdesktop remote client
• vncviewer vnc client
• ssh client
• X scripting system
• Text editor
• Desktop system
• X terminal emulator
• Gnome/KDE compliant wm
• many other linux utilities…

Mungkie says the distribution will run on any x86-based system with 5MB of memory, a floppy drive, VESA compliant graphics card, and a math coprocessor. Mungkie can build floppies that support systems without math coprocessors and other system configurations, from source.

Details and downloads are available from the project's webpage at Freshmeat.net.

 
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