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The 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?
Because there's big demand to mitm users of an extremely small and limited distribution from 2008?
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The Amiga 500 had high res graphics (or high color graphics … but not on the same scanline), multitasking, 15 bit sound (with a lot of work - the hardware had 4 channels of 8 bit DACs but a 6-bit volume, so …) In 1985, and with 512K of RAM. It was very usable for work.
a 320x200 6bit color depth wasn't exactly a pleasure to use. I think the games could double the res in certain mode (was it called 13h?)
Phenomenal for those low powered servers you just want to leave on and running some tiny batch of cronjobs [1] or something for months or years at a time without worrying too much about wear on the SD card itself rendering the whole installation moot.
This is actually how I have powered the backend data collection and processing for [2], as I wrote about in [3]. The end result is a static site built in Hugo but I was careful to pick parts I could safely leave to wheedle on their own for a long time.
[1]: https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/consider-the-cronslave/
[2]: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/
[3]: https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/lessons-learned-from-2-yea...
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There is a secure domain to download from as a mirror. For extra high security, the hash should be delivered OOB like on a mailing list but it isn’t
Where is that mirror linked from? If for the HTTP site that’s no better than downloading it from the website in the first place. > for extra high security, No, sending the hash on a mailing list and delivering downloads over https is the _bare minimum_ of security in this day and age.
And all the files are here https://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/16.x/x86/release/
I posted that above in this thread.
I will add that most places, forums, sites don’t deliver the hash OOB. Unless you mean like GPG but that would have came from same site. For example if you download a Packer plugin from GitHub, files and hash all comes from same site.
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Do you really need the framebuffer in RAM? Wouldn't that be entirely in the GPU RAM?
Computers didn't used to have GPUs back then when 150kB was a significant amount of graphics memory.
The EGA (1984) and VGA (1987) could conceivably be considered a GPU although not turning complete. EGA had 64, 128, 192, or 256K and VGA 256K.
The 8514/A (1987) was Turing complete although it had 512kB. The Image Adapter/A (1989) was far more powerful, pretty much the first modern GPU as we know them and came with 1MB expandable to 3MB.
Not 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.
With 320x240 pixels and 256 colors
If you were someone special, you got 1024x768.
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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…
Ive experimented with several small distros for this when doing cross platform development. In my experience, by the time you’re compiling and running code and installing dev dependencies on the remote machine, the size of the base OS isn’t a concern. I gained nothing from using smaller distros but lost a lot of time dealing with little issues and incompatibilities. This won’t win me any hacker points, but now if I n…
Question, I use VirtualBox, but I feel it's kind a laggy sometimes, What do you use? Any suggestion on performance improvements?