linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Tiny Core

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

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