Tiny Core Base > TCB Talk

how is tinycore able to run a desktop environment on older hardware?

(1/2) > >>

monn380:
Hello, I'm a relatively new user of Linux.
 I've been under the impression for a couple of months that even though the kernel has very broad support for any type of hardware if you wanted to use a Desktop environment on an older machine you would need to stop updating the kernel and the x server components, that was until i yesterday when I watched a video about installing tiny core on a Pentium 2 laptop and making it work remarkably well with a fully featured window manager and browsing the web without any problems, instead when I've tried to install Linux mint 20 on a 2008 laptop the GUI wouldn't even start.
How does tiny core to have such compatibility to manage to display a DE in a Pentium 2 when a "modern distro" can't even display the login screen properly in a 10 year younger laptop?
any insight on how linux builds the gui and how it works would be appreciated i want to make my laptop work properly again in a normal distro and understand more how linux works

hiro:
many little things adding up. generally rejecting bloat & newness over older simpler "good'enuf" things, using Xvesa instead of modern Xorg, not using bloated frameworks like gtk/kde etc.

monn380:

--- Quote from: hiro on February 03, 2025, 05:56:13 PM ---many little things adding up. generally rejecting bloat & newness over older simpler "good'enuf" things, using Xvesa instead of modern Xorg, not using bloated frameworks like gtk/kde etc.

--- End quote ---
does tiny core usa a special version of the mesa drivers?

hiro:
no, vesa.

gadget42:

--- Quote from: monn380 on February 03, 2025, 04:11:19 PM ---...
when I've tried to install Linux mint 20 on a 2008 laptop the GUI wouldn't even start.
...
--- End quote ---
which version of Tiny Core Linux did you try on circa 2008 laptop?

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page