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Microsoft's current OS has been shrunk to a ridiculous 100MB in size, but only by getting rid of windows from Windows (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] nybble41 5 points 10 months ago

The ubuntu:24.04 Docker image is only 77.30 MiB.

alpine:3.19.0 is 7.38 MiB.

Of course those sizes are without a kernel. Typical everything-included distro kernels are generally a few hundred MiB as they include drivers for everything that might be needed, but a custom build for known hardware can reduce that to just a few MiB.