du -h TinyCore32/ 21M TinyCore32/
Takes less than 5 seconds to boot in VMware. It's awesome for troubleshooting, and the distro is amazingly fast even when booting off a thumb drive.
Your comments about Broadcomm are well taken. They suck. Hate their wireless cards, and won't buy anything with their name on it under any circumstances.
I'm just glad that I don't have to be the microsoft treadmill any more. I just don't need the frustration.
My primary job is as a Windows engineer. I run my company’s domains and infrastructure on Windows 2008 and 2012. I have access to all of our keys and could install any Microsoft OS on any machine I wanted, but I don’t. At home I run an enterprise-class server with VMware ESXi 5.1 (free) and a cluster of 15 VMs all running Ubuntu Server 12.04. The only Windows machines in my home are my wife’s laptop and Surface and my gaming machine, but every single Microsoft license is legit.
Point is, given the opportunity, I’ll take Linux over Microsoft even if the MS license is technically free.