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| Brandon | TinyCore 3I am an avid linux user, as most of you know. I even released a "Puplet" (a Puppy Linux Fork) in 2008. I've used almost all the distros out there at one time or another and I have always been a fan of a couple: Mint, for it's out of the box experiance;Puppy, for it's desktop in such a small size and hardware support; and more recently Tiny Core has caught my eye. I have a few copies of the 1.x series on my hard drive but it wasn't really ready for the big time, and then 2 came, and although good, it wouldn't run on machines older than i686 for me, so it was essentially useless. This weekend I downloaded the latest version (3.4.1) and installed it to a machine I threw together (K6-2 500Mhz, 512MB RAM, 2x80GB HDDs) and it went pretty well. This morning I got out my 16GB CF and my Neoware thin client and it installed and is working well, the ISO is only 10MB so downloading took no time, however installation is currently command line only so it took a little patience. Right now I'm writing this in DIllo 2 with a couple tabs open, the package manager open and conky running, and my 300Mhz Geode is a 22% usage and I'm using 24.1/308MB RAM, I think I've finally found the OS for my thin client! Oh, and if you have an older machine and want a fast but modern OS for it, don't bother looking at anything else, it's 10MB, you have nothing to loose. | 2011-01-23 | 12:13 PM |
| Todd | Re:TinyCore 3TinyCore's really nice but my only qualm is how web-dependent it is if you install it on an old machine without internet capability. I might give it another shot sometime soon but I'd like to find something like an SDK to build applications for it (to me, OSes aren't useful if you can't hack them up a bit). | 2011-01-23 | 1:29 PM |
| Brandon | Re:TinyCore 3There's always FreeBASIC, Gambas, C, or any of the millions of other ways to make Linux apps :P | 2011-01-23 | 3:41 PM |
| Todd | Re:TinyCore 3Yeah I'm trying to take up the art of wxWidgets using G++. ;-) | 2011-01-23 | 5:25 PM |
| Brandon | Re:TinyCore 3Yeah it's web reliance is a pro and a con. If you want something out of the box for an older machine Puppy is much better, but for a system that can be customized, tinycore it is. Oh and it's pretty easy now to install local packages. Screenshot from my thin client
| 2011-01-23 | 8:17 PM |
| Todd | Re:TinyCore 3Yeah I've been playing around with it in Virtualbox. Maybe, just maybe, I'll get another thin client where I can load up Tiny Core. | 2011-01-24 | 9:50 PM |
| Brandon | Re:TinyCore 3I'm thinking about getting another one as well, I can hook you up with an ebya link if you want, I found some that are $20 and need a basic 12V AC adapter and use Desktop DDR RAM with 800Mhz CPUs. | 2011-01-25 | 10:47 AM |
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