The released versions of LRP were small enough to fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk, and made building and maintaining routers, access servers, thin servers, thin clients, network appliances, and typically embedded systems next to trivial.

It began originally as a 'router on a floppy' and evolved into a streamlined general purpose network operating system.

Several parts developed or specifically enhanced for LRP are still found in common usage today such as POSIXness and BusyBox.

He then began testing some ideas he had with proof of concept code, which he claimed was a radical departure from the status quo.

LRP 5.0 development was headed towards a complete rewrite and reimplementation of Linux userland with a new standard design outside of the POSIX specification.