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The fashion system has been broken for some time, said trend forecaster Li Edelkoort at VOICES 2016. But, it can still regain its cultural cachet, and fix its exploitative practices.
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Design goals

  • Minimal footprint (≤100 MB compressed) while remaining bootable.
  • Retain basic kernel, driver framework for essential hardware (storage, network), and a command-line or lightweight GUI shell.
  • Provide a secure, updateable base (as far as practical) with clear documentation of omissions.
  • Fast boot and low runtime resource usage.

Network and update support

  1. Extract to an NTFS partition → boot with bootloader (e.g., EasyBCD, Grub4DOS)
  2. Use in a VM (512MB RAM assigned)
  3. Boot via USB with bootice or Rufus (DD mode)
  • Run compact /compactos:always in admin command prompt.
  • Shrinks ~12 GB install to ~6–7 GB, not 100 MB.

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