Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
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Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
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Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
#2Looks really nice, I like the idea.
But can they please empower a user interface designer to simply improve the margins and paddings of their interface? With a bunch of small improvements it would look significantly better. Just fix the spacing between buttons and borders and other UI elements.
Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
#3This is cool. My first into to a practical application of Linux in the early 2000s was using Damn Small Linux to recover files off of cooked Windows Machines. I looked up the project the other day while reminiscing and thought it would be interesting if someone took a real shot at reviving the spirit of the project.
Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
#4The site doesn't have HTTPS and there doesn't seem to be any mention of signatures on the downloads page. Any way to check it hasn't been MITM'd?
Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
#5Looks really nice, I like the idea. But can they please empower a user interface designer to simply improve the margins and paddings of their interface? With a bunch of small improvements it would look significantly better. Just fix the spacing between buttons and borders and other UI elements.
One could argue that visible borders are a feature, not a bug.
If you are trying to maximize for accessibility, that is.
Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
#6Looks really nice, I like the idea. But can they please empower a user interface designer to simply improve the margins and paddings of their interface? With a bunch of small improvements it would look significantly better. Just fix the spacing between buttons and borders and other UI elements.
Modern UX trends are a scourge of excessive whitespace and low information density that get in the way of actually accomplishing tasks.
Any project that rejects those trends gets bonus points in my book.
Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
#7The site doesn't have HTTPS and there doesn't seem to be any mention of signatures on the downloads page. Any way to check it hasn't been MITM'd?
Not foolproof. Could compute MD5 or SHA256 after downloading.
Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
#8The site doesn't have HTTPS and there doesn't seem to be any mention of signatures on the downloads page. Any way to check it hasn't been MITM'd?
Ideas to decrease risk of MITM:
Download from at least one more location (like some AWS/GCP instance) and checksum.
Download from the Internet Archive and checksum:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/http://www.tinyc...
Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
#9Not to disrespect this, but it used to be entirely normal to have a GUI environment on a machine with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB disk.
Or 128K of ram and 400 kb disk for that matter.
Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
#10The site doesn't have HTTPS and there doesn't seem to be any mention of signatures on the downloads page. Any way to check it hasn't been MITM'd?