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

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Rich:
Hi gadget42
Read it again:

--- 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. ...
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polikuo:

--- Quote from: monn380 on February 03, 2025, 04:11:19 PM ---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?

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The compiler flags, we use -march=i486 -mtune=i686 for 32-bit, other distros have moved on to newer machines.

neonix:

--- Quote from: hiro on February 03, 2025, 05:56:13 PM ---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?

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TCL has Xvesa and Xfbdev that are compatible with many old and new graphic cards, and don't require complicated configuration.

Xorg is Achilles' heel for Linux and nobody is interested in fixing this heel. Many distros abandom Xvesa and TCL still supports it.

Ofcourse Xorg can be manually configured to works with vesa and fbdev driver just like Xvesa and Xfbdev, but it require knowlage and time.

In TC15 there's vesa-xorg-conf.tcz that allow to run Xorg with vesa driver without any configuration, out of the box in x86-32 and x86-64 system.

hiro:
misquote, neonix ;)

Scott779:
Hi Tiny Core Linux is designed with minimalism in mind allowing it to run on older machines like your 2008 laptop.With minimal system requirements of just 46 MB RAM and a basic Intel 486DX processor TCL can launch a graphical environment where modern distributions, burdened with additional features, might struggle ,If you want to restore your laptops functionality consider using lightweight Linux distributions like Tiny Core LinuxTheir minimalist approach allows for better performance on older hardware .Additionally understanding how Linux builds the graphical interface can help optimize the system for your needs :)

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