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Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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Post by hamdingers »

dayeye2006 wrote: post #76
ifh-hn wrote: post #43

I've used many of these small Linux distros. I used to have Tiny Core in a VM for different things. I also like SliTaz: http://slitaz.org/en , and Slax too: https://www.slax.org/ Oh and puppy Linux, which I could never get into but was good for live CDs: https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/ And there's also Alpine too.

wondering what's your typical usage for those small distros?

In college I used a Slax (version 6 IIRC) SD card for schoolwork. I did my work across various junk laptops, a gaming PC, and lab computers, so it gave me consistency across all of those.

Booting a dedicated, tiny OS with no distractions helped me focus. Plus since the home directory was a FAT32 partition, I could access all my files on any machine without having to boot. A feature I used a lot when printing assignments at the library.

Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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Post by uecker »

maccard wrote: post #91
uecker wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is better than nothing if you note it down. You can compare it later if somebody / or you was compromised to see whether you had the same download as everyone else.

Sorry but this is nonsense. It’s better than nothing if you proactively log the hashes before you need them, but it’s actively harmful for anyone wi downloads it after it’s compromised.

"It is better than nothing" is literally what I said. But thinking about it more, I actually think is quite useful. Any kind of signature or out-of-band hash is also only good if the source is not compromised, but knowing after the fact whether you are affected or not is extremely valuable.

Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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Post by veqq »

beng-nl wrote: post #63
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #39

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I would like to have this again I prefer to use additional RAM and disk for data not code

To think that the entire distro would fit in a reasonable LLC (last level cache)..

Like the k language!

Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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Post by silasb »

t_mahmood wrote: post #102
ifh-hn wrote: post #43

I've used many of these small Linux distros. I used to have Tiny Core in a VM for different things. I also like SliTaz: http://slitaz.org/en , and Slax too: https://www.slax.org/ Oh and puppy Linux, which I could never get into but was good for live CDs: https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/ And there's also Alpine too.

Wondering if it would be a good idea to setup a VM with this. Setup remote connection, and intellij. Just have a script to clone it for a new project and connect from anywhere using a remote app. It will increase the size of the VM but the template would be smaller than a full blown OS Aside from dev containers, what are other options? I'm not able to run intellij on my laptop, is not an option I use Nvim to ssh into…

moonlight / sunshine might work if you can't run it locally.

It'd be best with hardwired network though.

Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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Post by rzerowan »

api wrote: post #111
Joel_Mckay wrote: post #97

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Licensing, and QNX missed a consumer launch window by around 17 years. Some businesses stick with markets they know, as non-retail customer revenue is less volatile. If you enter the consumer markets, there are always 30k irrational competitors (likely with 1000X the capital) that will go bankrupt trying to undercut the market. It is a decision all CEO must make eventually. Best of luck =3 "The Rules for Rulers: How…

This also underscores my explanation for the “worse is better” phenomenon: worse is free. Stuff that is better designed and implemented usually costs money and comes with more restrictive licenses. It’s written by serious professionals later in their careers working full time on the project, and these are people who need to earn a living. Their employers also have to win them in a competitive market for talent. So th…

There is also the option by well written professional wherer the startergy is to grab as much market share as they can by allowing the proliferation of their product to lockup market/mindshare and rleaget the $ enforcement for later - successfully used by MSWindows for the longest time and Photoshop .

Conversly i remenber Maya or Autodesk used to have a bounty program for whoever would turn in people using unlicensed/cracked versions of their product.Meanwhile Blender (from a commercial past) kept their free nature and have connsistently grown in popularity and quality without any such overtures.

Of course nowadays with Saas everything get segmented into wierd verticals and revenue upsells are across the board with the first hit usually also being free.

Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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Post by ja27 »

jacquesm wrote: post #114
dayeye2006 wrote: post #76

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wondering what's your typical usage for those small distros?

I used DSL for the control of a homebrew 8' x 4' CNC plasmacutter.

I was just thinking today how I miss my DSL (Damn Small Linux) setup. A Pentium 2 Dell laptop, booted from mini-CD, usb drive for persistence. It ran a decent "dumb" terminal, X3270, and stripped down browser (dillo I believe). Was fine for a good chunk of my work day.

Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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Post by slim »

Tiny Core also runs from ramdisk, uses a packaging systems based on tarballs mounted in a fusefs and can be installed on a dos formatted usb key. It also has a subdistro named dCore[1] which uses debian packages (which it unpacks and mounts in the fusefs) so you get access to the ~70K packages of debian.

It's documentation is a free book : http://www.tinycorelinux.net/book.html

[1] https://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=dcore:welcome

Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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Post by hinkley »

jerrythegerbil wrote: post #37
echoangle wrote: post #30

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Do you really need the framebuffer in RAM? Wouldn't that be entirely in the GPU RAM?

To put it in GPU RAM, you need GPU drivers. For example, NVIDIA GPU drivers are typically around 800M-1.5G. That math actually goes wildly in the opposite direction for an optimization argument.

Someone last winter was asking for help with large docker images and it came about that it was for AI pipelines. The vast majority of the image was Nvidia binaries. That was wild. Horrifying, really. WTF is going on over there?

Re: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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Post by Beijinger »

Someone wrote: post #75
gardnr wrote: post #56

I love lightweight distros. QNX had a "free as in beer" distro that fit on a floppy, with Xwindows and modem drivers. After years of wrangling with Slackware CDs, it was pretty wild to boot into a fully functional system from a floppy.

> QNX had a "free as in beer" distro that fit on a floppy, with Xwindows and modem drivers. I don’t think that had the X Windows system. https://web.archive.org/web/19991128112050/http://www.qnx.co... and https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-chat&m=103030933111004 confirm that. It ran the Photon microGUI Windowing System ( https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.5.0SP1.update/com.qnx.... )

Somebody has build it: https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
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