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why do you leave TinyCoreLinux and where do u go after?

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jls:
Thanx

thane:
Well, your questions will be difficult to answer if the people who leave don't read/post here anymore...

There were a few posts a little while ago from someone who finally said he was moving on. I think he was a new Linux user basically looking for an out-of-the-box distro, which TC really isn't. I myself might have found TC discouraging (this was 4 years ago) if it was the first Linux distro I had tried. Due to a couple of hardware issues it took me some time to get things working right. I stuck with it because I really like the philosophy behind TC (customization and file safety) but if I'd just been looking for a quick Linux experience I may well have moved on too.

jls:
I'd like this post to be sticky. thx

cpoakes:
I leave and come back all the time.  Being modular and small are valuable in creating bootable CDs and USB Flash drives.  So I frequently experiment with TC, and almost used it as the basis for a turnkey "test and clone" system.  Almost.  Instead, I added my scripts to  Patrick Verner's Parted Magic which gave me the preconfigured OS plus a set of related and useful applications in a CD-sized package.

My daily driver for years has been the minimalist  CrunchBang.  It has evolved with so many customizations that moving to standard Debian Wheezy made more sense when CrunchBang also moved to wheezy.  I am still an Openbox/Tint2/Conky fan, and can squeeze my wheezy installation onto 4GB.  Lately I am back at TinyCore for the dCore project (small, modular, AND based on Debian) to see if I can recreate my desktop to a smaller USB Flash drive or maybe even a CD.

I have also like Porteus 2.1, and managed to recreate much of my Debian desktop installation in 600MB.  But being based on Slackware, there are fewer pre-compiled packages.  To get what I want frequently requires building it myself.  But I am lazy and only willing to do this for one or two packages.  I prefer "off-the-shelf" packages so I don't have to debug the builds or keep up with updated sources.  For the moment I have drifted away from Porteus, but recommend it nonetheless.  It is compact, modular, can be loaded entirely in RAM, and compatible with the all Slackware (Slackware/Slacky/Salix/Alien) repos.

hiro:
They got on de bus, that fell into the udev on which they floated straight into the systemdhell.

If I want my everyday system to be clean, small, fast-moving, but also stable (this means being able to install the latest shiny crap software without polluting my lean base system) tinycore it is.

Two days ago I set up a wifi repeater on some ARM architecture with debian squeeze. After the actual install all I had to do was add 3 packages and creating two config files. As I will never touch the system again this was the most simple choice for me. On the other hand: If I had to do this install frequently I would use tinycore, because with the gigabytes-big default install it takes AGES to install debian on a flash disk. In this case I had enough time so it didn't matter.

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