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some notes on the philosophy behind TC
jamtat:
--- Quote from: thane on June 17, 2010, 06:57:53 PM ---Not sure what your quarrel with TC's design philosophy is -- there are lots of free Linux distros to choose from.
--- End quote ---
No quarrel. Just trying to understand it better.
James
thane:
Was going to edit, but the 'hybrid' type of setup (haven't tried it) is supposed to be more like a standard installation:
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/concepts.html
jur:
RE system rot, it seems to me a soon as you have an permanent installation, there is the possibility of files getting corrupted either via hardware failure, incorrect shutdowns, atmospheric neutrons, newer versions getting overwritten by obsolete ones and so on. In short, anything at all that might alter files in any way at all, including unintentional deleting.
Entropy exists, it is the most fundamental universal law. Data can only go one way. You can reduce the probability of data corruption but it is in principle impossible to stop it.
It is of course possible that the probability is so low that it can be safely ignored.
But it certainly is also a function of how much a setup is fiddled with. On my work winXP, I leave it alone and it has worked well for a number of years now. At home, with me trying out software and getting rid of it, my system inevitably deteriorated. Performance also deteriorated with installation of more and more software as many pieces of s/w leave their own pre-loaders, accelerators, upgrade checkers etc etc littered in the OS.
Plasma:
"TC will be held back in this regard by being x86 - As long as ARM rules embedded land, TC has no place there."
..Sorry but, could'nt help but read this post and it's really a shame that TC has no ambitions in the ARM area. It would rock in there as well, in mho, anyways.
.......Intel's MeeGo Linux Distro, seems to be fillling a niche in the mobile phone and Netbook OS markets. I thought this was interesting:
<html>http://techviewz.org/2010/05/nokia-n920-with-meego-os-will-boost.html</html>
Later
Plasma
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