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why do you leave TinyCoreLinux and where do u go after?
beerstein:
One never leaves TCL You always find a use for special tasks, especially on diskless systems and older PCs.
As a newbee you also can learn a lot by using TCL. If you are looking for a complete system environment, Debian and/or
Mint are your best bets.
chattrhand:
No, I will NOT leave TinyCoreLinux, it has too many features that make it unique:
- Ease to install it even multiple on the same stick for special purposes,
- Very short time to boot and rundown, even from pendrive, and with persistence
- Ease to update all of its extensions, even with older tc releases
With TinyCore-7.x I am running on Problems. some of them have a workaround but not all, I hope they will be fixed.
I tried Puppy, but was not very happy.
Now I found Slitaz rolling, for both 32bit and 64bit CPU. You get an .iso of a "frozen state" every month.
After booting (very fast) you can update your system with all of the packets newer than the ,iso state.
This can take some minutes and,- the fun of a rolling release,- the packets are usable immediately.
The RAM consumption increases to about 100 MB (on my systems); SWAP partitions will be used.
While updating you can use the onboard midori browser; after finishing the packet update you can add the recent firefox official or -ESR, and there is a huge number of additional software in the repository.
This update has to be done at every reboot. And actually I've only found a narrow way for data persistence, and access to mass memory like hdd or pendrives.
The docu is a bit confusing, so I did not get to the bottom actually.
ulfr:
I agree Tinycore is unique and awesome
In my opinion It is the best designed linux distro there is period
and I have tried just about all of them
I don't post much because everything works great for me
but I would like the people that make Tinycore to know I appreciate their work
thanks again
ulfr
FruityComputers:
It turns out that my original copy of puppy was no good so I burnt another and this one boots up on my CF-28 and I have sound :o I can run it in high resolution too. I'm quite chuffed with that. Puppy Linux will now be its main OS if everything goes to plan figures crossed... I installed it to the hard drive but made a mistake when I installed the grub boot loader so I've got to start again, hopefully I'll get lucky the second time. I was mainly just looking for a graphical desktop environment for this specific laptop for basic use.
This doesn't mean I've abandoned Tiny Core I have installed Tiny Core on another laptop as it does interest me and I hope to learn more about as I go along.
FruityComputers:
Sorry posted in the wrong thread ???
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