Off-Topic > Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge

It's great.

<< < (3/4) > >>

curaga:
Ah, but there is Debian HD for comparison ;)

jpeters:

--- Quote from: curaga on March 14, 2009, 12:48:25 PM ---Ah, but there is Debian HD for comparison ;)

--- End quote ---

Right...HD will always be faster, so it  wouldn't make much sense other than to market how tcl USB can be faster than a typical HD installation.  I gathered from the "trend" analysis that people are gravitating towards USB, putting tc in the sweet spot. 

mikshaw:
My impression of  curaga's first post was not about "debian HD", but "frugal HD", which is basically the same as USB install, only using a harddrive instead of USB (which can take a little while to detect during boot).  I have a frugal install of TC on harddrive, with a 600mhz processor, and it takes less time to boot than netzen's USB on Athlon 64.

I would suspect that if USB devices were to become more universal as far as hardware detection is concerned (rather than having to dynamically detect their location), applying USB to a live system will likely become much faster.

netzen:
What follows is an unfair comparison of hard disk installation space usage and size, but it shows the potential of the TinyCore design.

[ just webmail & wikipedia ]
If I just want wikipedia or webmail, for example, I did a comparison between 2.2GByte Ubuntu 8.10 Hard Disk fresh install and a TinyCore 23.4MBytes (core + Opera) "fresh" install. It means that TinyCore uses 1% of the disk space.



(highres)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3587/3362558448_75b77d7e47_o.jpg


[ the basic core system ]
If the idea is to use TinyCore to "build" systems using a system as building block, then the comparison shows that TinyCore uses only 0.7% of disk space.



(highres)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3538/3361741851_06c8b10f95_o.jpg


The comparison is not fair but I did it to have the contrast idea that the design of the TinyCore may allows us to do things that all others (almost all) Linuxes do not allow.

The idea of having the core very tiny will enable a different kind of thinking about Linux. I will elaborate more about this later.

I like to mention Exupery's definition of "perfection".

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

jpeters:

--- Quote from: netzen on March 17, 2009, 05:58:34 AM ---=
I like to mention Exupery's definition of "perfection".

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

--- End quote ---

..a guy who liked to keep his instrument panel uncluttered:  (hope that's not what got him killed...)

"He became one of the pioneers of international postal flight, in the days when aircraft had few instruments. Later he complained that those who flew the more advanced aircraft had become more like accountants than pilots"

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page