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TinyCore: just a few steps left to the ultimate OS
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: Monobit.Fortrix on November 04, 2010, 02:53:52 AM ---Probably this is about the issue?
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I wouldn't know, but that's more than 5 and half years old, so I would expect it to be fixed by now...
curaga:
--- Quote ---And when the source is needed, it's much more likely to find the source on the authors' pages. For instance...if someone decides to change the Linux kernel used in TC base, where will he look the sources for? Obviously not on tinycorelinux.com but on kernel.org.
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Many upstreams remove older releases. And if one wants whatever non-upstream patches used in TC, there's no other source generally than our site.
Monobit.Fortrix:
--- Quote from: curaga on November 04, 2010, 03:47:07 AM ---And if one wants whatever non-upstream patches used in TC, there's no other source generally than our site.
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I didn't mention TC-specific releases. It's obvious that TC-specific software has to be hosted on TC sites. :)
Since the discussion vector here has changed to another direction, I'd like to ask you about exactly what the topic name says: what steps should the TC distro perform to become an ultimate OS that anyone would want to move to?
curaga:
I don't believe there's a universal solution anyone and everyone would want, actually.
Monobit.Fortrix:
--- Quote from: curaga on November 04, 2010, 04:23:37 PM ---I don't believe there's a universal solution anyone and everyone would want, actually.
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Let me split the answer into the paragraphs, although you can read it as a whole:
1) I don't believe such a crappy OS as Window$ can even be such a soultion but it still does have lots of users and lots of newbies still want it, actually. This is due to the aggressive marketing policy. Free software community really _can_ do something to override it, but there are problems, they and their solution suggestions will be shown here later.
2) The goal of Cassandra project will be drawing the masses attention to TC technology. Unlike Windows's, the Cassandra's spreading policy will in ideal case be self-advertising - to reach the distribution quality to the stage when most users will want it not because someone "abstract and big" said "it's good" but because they will know it really works flawlessly and does what they want perfectly, and they will really get the practical confirmation of that. The effort to reach this is really worth its effect.
3) Existing Linux distros developers can already do such an effort but they can do it together only. I don't see any sense in the derivatives of the distributions that are already newbie-intended. Moreover, for example, I hate all the Ubuntu derivatives because of this fact (not Ubuntu itself but its derivatives), and note that 20% of them don't even have the reminder they're Ubuntu-based and I find it out when looking through the system more carefully. That reminds me of the "famous" and ill-rumored BolgenOS. Btw, Jolicloud is such a distro. If only all these developers got concerned on improving their upstream projects which are already newbie-intended, these projects would develop faster to reach the above aim. But for now, we do have what we have.
4) To the opposite, TinyCore, while having a perfect modular achitecture, doesn't have any single newbie-intended derivative distro. If such a distro existed, I'd try to join its development but since it doesn't, I decided at least to start the process. But you know that the creation of an ultimate distro can't be possible without the community feedback or contribution, so feel free at these things, that's why I'm here - Cassandra will be an open project.
5) Returning to the quoted post at last, one of the project aims is to make Cassandra not the absolute universal solution which of course isn't possible to create, but at least we'd try to make it as universal as popular OS'es, just outperforming them thanks to the unique TC technology. ;)
P.S. I also have thought about build version numbering system. The version will be a 4-digit (in the future - 5-digit) number, the first 2 or 3 digits will represent the version of base TC system (e.g. 32 for TC 3.2 or 159 for TC 15.9 if it will be released anytime ;) ), and the last 2 digits will represent the current build number (from 00 to 99) within the same version Cassandra is built upon. For instance, Cassandra 3211 will mean the 11th build upon TC 3.2. So, the first build ever released will bear the name Cassandra 3200. Sounds futuristic, doesn't it? :)
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