Computer for Tiny Core Linux

[Juanito]

But for Tiny Core I think the main issue is the lack of PiCore extensions compared to TC x86_64. That was a large part of why I picked a cheap x86_64 SBC instead of a Raspberry Pi board

The majority of extensions are user requested or user submitted - what are you missing in the RPi repos?

[Rich]

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[CNK]

But for Tiny Core I think the main issue is the lack of PiCore extensions compared to TC x86_64. That was a large part of why I picked a cheap x86_64 SBC instead of a Raspberry Pi board

The majority of extensions are user requested or user submitted - what are you missing in the RPi repos?

Actually the list does turn out to be much smaller than I thought:

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usb-utils
whois
bind
elfutils
gsfonts
imagemagick
sc-im
sshfs

Most of the missing ones are extensions I've ended up building myself on x86_64:

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nedit
mailutils
links-full
sylpheed
xpdf
xpdf-tools
gv
mosh
motif
dillo-git
dillo-gemini
dillo-gopher
tint
carl

Firefox is a big hurdle on ARM though. I want up-to-date stable versions of it. I've been watching the state of Firefox AARCH64 Linux binaries published by Mozilla since it was announced for nightly builds, with interest to adding PiCore support to the firefox_getLatest script/extension when it applies to the release builds. But they're still only doing Linux AARCH64 builds for nightly...

[Juanito]

Firefox is a big hurdle on ARM though. I want up-to-date stable versions of it. I've been watching the state of Firefox AARCH64 Linux binaries published by Mozilla since it was announced for nightly builds, with interest to adding PiCore support to the firefox_getLatest script/extension when it applies to the release builds. But they're still only doing Linux AARCH64 builds for nightly...

The piCore64-15.x repo has firefox-128.2.0esr
The piCore-15.x repo has firefox-68.5.0esr - I tried building 128.2.0esr, but the build fails

The CorePure64-15.x repo has firefox-128.2.0esr
The Core-15.x repo doesn't have a firefox extension because the 128..2.0 build fails

It looks like recent versions of firefox have a problem building natively on 32-bit machines - I read somewhere that it might be possible to build 32-bit versions by cross-compiling on a 64-bit machine.