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

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hiro:
seriously, you specially created a new account just for this junk?
at least it's not some markov chain, that would make more sense.

still coming back to tinycorelinux all the time, bec. i keep on using my good old mydata.tgz everywhere, and no other OS is so easy to use without installation.

been doing some alpine stuff bec. of hipster container stuff.
somebody should probably take tinycorelinux and add musl and alpine packages to it. i always miss tinycorelinux when on alpine :(

i hate that all OS's now have bigger and bigger system layer in between userland and kernel when most frequently all i want is to run one command in one shell script (esp. on containers). and that's what i can do easily with /opt/bootlocal in mydata.tgz.

tinycorelinux is the minimum linux userland that still can support everything i need to easily customize my own system layer.

aneverydayhumanuser:
You are either trolling or you never read the documentation.

There is no easy to understand guide to install specific programs that aren't present in the official repo.

In fact, that's exactly one of the problems that happened with damn small linux. An "elite" group of people were the one creating the extensions in the official repos and once they were gone, It was all over and most of the common people didn't know how to create extensions.

No simple documentation to customize the UI.

No simple documentation to support your hardware.

There is no documentation to do REAL everyday stuff!!!!

Rich:
Hi aneverydayhumanuser
Welcome to the forum.

You are right, it takes some work to get Tinycore to where you want it. It is not a turnkey system. It is a small distro that
doesn't have the kind of manpower of Debian or other larger distros to support it. It is all volunteer based. As a result, it
also relies on member contributions for extensions and to provide help to other newcomers.

Information on how extensions are created, among other subjects, can be found here:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=wiki:start

There is also a very fine book available here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/corebook.pdf

curaga:
TC (or DSL) aren't really aimed at users new to computers. You would be better served by another distro.

PDP-8:
..humanuser...

I can't resist because it's so over the top to think that TC should be productized to your needs, and demand hand-holding.  Like they somehow "owe" you something?

Perhaps the easiest thing to do is change your outlook and become a nerd.  Nothing to be ashamed of. :)  Or just seek out something else that meets your needs.

Here's the original document from the "Elite Group" that brought all of this fun to us in the first place.  People went absolutely bat-crazy over it's simplicity.

Ken and Dennis kind of hand-hold the audience step-by-step over what it's all about:

http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/ritchie-thompson-unix-time-sharing-system.pdf

Towards the end, you'll see some really impressive uptimes!  Yet they plowed ahead.

Start here.  OR boot microcore, do NOT go online, and actually learn what you can do with all that the devs of TC have enabled.

Check it out: a 3rd-edition of "How Linux Works" by Brian Ward is due out later this year, however the 2nd edition from 2015 is still quite relevant.

LEARNing something is soooo much more satisfying that just going down a checklist based on the work of others.

.. I mean c'mon man, you asked for it. :) :)

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