Ubuntu Highly Compressed — 10mb

wget http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/22.04/release/ubuntu-base-22.04-base-amd64.tar.gz

# Use Alpine Linux's mkimage script but swap alpine-apk for ubuntu's libs # This creates an initramfs where the root is compressed in RAM ubuntu highly compressed 10mb

Future work includes:

~260 MB (the smallest official stable release). wget http://cdimage