linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Tiny Core //ARCH

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Tiny Core //ARCH

thank You for help. the professionals say arch debian gentoo. but I am
beginner. regards sophie

Am 14.05.2014 17:11, schrieb Martin Warren elephant_range@yahoo.com
[LINUX_Newbies]:
> Hi Sophie.
>
> Here's the scoop on TinyCore... Yes, it is Debian-based. Tiny Core was
> developed by one Robert Shingledecker, who was a major force in the
> development of one of the first live distros targeted to older
> machines... the similarily Debian-based DSL (Damn Small Linux). He
> began working on TC just before his departure from that project, and
> simply continued w/ TC after his falling out with John Andrews & the
> rest of the DSL team in 2008.
>
> The main innovation he had brought to DSL was the MyDSL repository,
> which is a package management tool similar to Puppy's 'pupget'. If you
> are familiar with DSL, then you might see TC as being an outgrowth of
> its customizability. One of TC's main tenets is the prevention of 'data
> rot' (i.e. fragmentation and corruption). Therefore, TC users are
> discouraged from making permanent installs of the OS. At 10G for a
> base, it indeed a good distro for usb & flash drives, but it also
> carries with it the install/reinstall dependency issues which Debian's
> 'apt-get' package management system creates from time to time.
>
> If you're looking for a distro with a modern kernel to do a permanent
> install with on i686+, and you REALLY want full control over I'd
> recommend Arch instead. Also, if you're intrigued by TC, you may also
> be interested to know that Damn Small Linux is indeed still alive, and
> has a recent release candidate, v4.11. This uses the 2.4 kernel and
> contains a few improvements and a few things I hesitate to call
> improvements, but the distro is still alive.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Martin
>