Comment 2T5W Re: Tiny Core Linux is a 12 MB graphical Linux desktop

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Friday Distro: SliTaz Linux

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Tiny Core Linux is a 12 MB graphical Linux desktop (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-10-06 08:24 (#2T4Q)

"The whole distro fits easily on 30MB on a (small!) USB stick."

So...

"Tiny Core Linux is a 12 MB graphical Linux desktop. It is based on a recent Linux kernel, BusyBox, Tiny X, Fltk, and Flwm. The core runs entirely in memory and boots very quickly. The user has complete control over which applications and/or additional hardware to have supported, be it for a desktop, a nettop, an appliance or server; selectable from the project's online repository."

How bout them apples?

So much for the size of SliTaz Linux. IMO what a STUPID name for a distro!

Re: Tiny Core Linux is a 12 MB graphical Linux desktop (Score: 2, Insightful)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-10-06 20:43 (#2T55)

Yes, you've found a distro even lighter weight than SliTaz. Congrats! Looks pretty interesting to me. If others are interested maybe I'll give it a spin for an upcoming Distro Friday. Agree with you SliTaz is a pretty awful name. I poked around to figure out the origin of the name and didn't find an obvious one. Make up your own acronym day? There are many contenders for the 'worst distro name ever' title, I'm afraid.

I'm not sure if your post is intended to offend or you're just not a clear writer. I'll assume the best, in hopes I'm not just feeding an anonymous troll here - of which there are either suddenly more, or the existing ones have suddenly gotten more verbose. Yawn.

Re: Tiny Core Linux is a 12 MB graphical Linux desktop (Score: 1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-10-07 14:14 (#2T5W)

And he left out the best part.

"Tiny Core Linux (TCL) is a minimal Linux operating system focusing on providing a base system using BusyBox and FLTK, developed by Robert Shingledecker"

Shingledecker! The developer's name is Shingledecker! That might be the best name ever. :)

Also, the desktop is reputed to have an OSX look and feel, which is amusing (or distressing). I don't think I'd bother with SliTaz, but I might like to play with TinyCore a bit.

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2014-10-07 17:07 Funny +1 kerrany@pipedot.org

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