Hi Misalf,
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Installing iptables plus any browser (and exclude its config folder from the backup list) should result in a pretty save system.
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I do the same - NetFilter is in my OnBoot ( I got excellent feedback abt Iptables some yrs back, Courtesy : Curaga ) . And Links is my default browser, but I do not need -g option, as Links in OnDemand aleady load Links in graphics mode.
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Those programs the Core developers prefer for themselves really doesn't need to fulfil the users needs..
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My observation abt Core Developers - in general - is that, they generally try to reccomend lean and less resource hungry apps like AppBrowser-cli.tcz and mc.tcz etc.. So they may not un-necesserily bloat the CD version with high end apps - if such CD actually materialized, I hope.
By the way, I am little bit confused abt the TinyCore's minimlist OS concept - "Core - Toolkit for Linux, Build it your own way" logo and approach, as slowly but steadily the build size of the ISO is increasing from tc2.x to tc5.x with .tcz and then new introduction of .scm and dropping of .scm ...
If that was not enough, now the new project of dCore - the readymade Debian imports, with tons of MBs or GBs downloads. Well, but - to be frank - very much or too much confused abt the smallest foot-print idea. Definately I must be missing lots of developments in TCL...
That's why I dared to request for an Official TCL CD with commonly used apps.
Hope I have not disturbed anybody's "core concepts" philosophy here.
But lastly, I am still using TCL3.5 - started from TCL2.x - for all of my online/offline computer works, no other M$ or Linux OS, I just can't change my OS now, I am used to it. I do'nt understand why people go on changing or upgrading the system on the slightest of the changes in new releases of any SW/HW, if it does the same job without much of the benefits..
~Pats