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Could such a distro support my i486-DX4-100 system with 64MB of RAM? I've been looking for something other than Win95, NT4, and OpenBSD 6.8 to run on this box. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Core_Linux#System_require...
For unknown reasons, tinycorelinux's website is geoblocked in Japan.
I seem to be able to access it just fine via ProtonVPN's Japan region tho.
In weeks before, when the topic came up elsewhere, I had to use one of my tailscale exit nodes elsewhere.
It wouldn't work from Japan. Not from home, not from office, not from phone network either.
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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.
You can use this site https://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/downloads.html 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 f…
This thread started by talking about the site serving the download (and hash) over http. Github serves their content over https, so you're not going to be MITM'ed. There are other attack vectors, but if the delivery of the content you're downloading is compromised/MITM'ed, you've lost.
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"Tiny Core Linux has a version for Raspberry Pis called piCore [0] that I wish more people would look at, because it loads itself entirely into RAM and does not touch the SD card at all after that until and unless you explicitly tell it to." Before RPI existed, I always made filesystem images for USB sticks in NetBSD so that writes never touched "disk" ("diskless"). This allows me to remove the USB stick after boot,…
I actually considered NetBSD for an old 32 bit box yesterday, so I'm somewhat wise to this world. My first experience with ramdisk operating systems was Puppy Linux back in the early 2010s. Ultimately I'm probably going with OpenBSD for that box. But, NetBSD ISOs are much heavier than TCL ISOs, and so while I'm sure there's a way to get just what I want working in diskless mode, I'm not confident I will have any RAM…
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"Tiny Core Linux has a version for Raspberry Pis called piCore [0] that I wish more people would look at, because it loads itself entirely into RAM and does not touch the SD card at all after that until and unless you explicitly tell it to." Before RPI existed, I always made filesystem images for USB sticks in NetBSD so that writes never touched "disk" ("diskless"). This allows me to remove the USB stick after boot,…
What's the size of your "diskless" NetBSD installation, and how fast does it boot? As compared to TC, the "out of the box" NetBSD images contain many things I wouldn't need, so customizing it has been a recurring thought, but oh well. The documentation and careful modularity is, obviously, a huge bonus of NetBSD in that regard (even an end-user like me could do some interesting modifications of the kernel solely by r…
In around 2002, I got my hands on an old 386 which I was planning to use for teaching myself things. I was able to breathe life into it using MicroLinux. Two superformatted 1.44" floppy disks and the thing booted. Basic kernel, 16 colour X display, C compiler and Editor. I don't know if there are any other options for older machines other than stripped down Linux distros.
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> Alpine uses musl instead of glibc for the C standard library. This has caused me all types of trouble in unexpected places. I have no experience with alternative C libs. Can you share some example issues?
DNS queries randomly failing: https://purplecarrot.co.uk/post/2021-09-04-does_alpine-resol...
Tiny Core ran surprisingly well and I could actually use it to browse the web and use IRC.
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.
I never understood how that QNX desktop didn't pick up instanntly, it was amazing !
They were expensive too. You had to pay for each device driver you used.