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Any derivatives of TC for windows/mac people?
Ulysses_:
Ubuntu is the most widely used distro for one reason: it successfully brought much of the windows and mac culture to linux so every non-technical person could get proficient very fast. "Linux for human beings" was the ubuntu selling line. Easy install, easy use, quality support if you pay for it.
But with time, ubuntu is becoming bloatware many people say. Because as was said from as far back as 1995,
"software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster."
Are there any derivatives of TC that attempt to bring TC performance to non-technical people?
Should there be such an effort?
MikeLockmoore:
Have you seen SvOlli's "The Full Core" http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=7120.0? I think it already includes some friendly features for Windows-users like NTFS support.
In general, Tiny Core is for experienced users. A Windows or Mac "power user" could probably get along OK with a fuller (remastered) set of applications, as is done in the Full Core. Along with some help in these forums. ;) But building up your own custom installation from Tiny Core base usually requires at least a little Linux/Unix experience. Other distros cover the "nearly painless transition" need fairly well: Puppy on the low end and Linux Mint on the higher end would be the two I'd recommend to a new user.
Ulysses_:
Yes, I'm a keen user of Svolli's remaster. It's not a comprehensive set of linux functionality by default though, by Full Core he does not mean anything as full as ubuntu, let alone as newbie-friendly as ubuntu.
--- Quote ---Other distros cover the "nearly painless transition" need fairly well: Puppy on the low end and Linux Mint
--- End quote ---
Mint gets as slow as ubuntu or even slower on occasions. Puppy is missing foreign fonts and also missing cleartype, and everything is done by root - security seems highly questionable.
SamK:
--- Quote from: Ulysses_ on December 08, 2010, 09:49:02 AM ---Are there any derivatives of TC that attempt to bring TC performance to non-technical people?
--- End quote ---
See this post:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=7698.0
Unsure whether the TC forum rules permit showing a direct address under the "remix" guidelines. [removed 6]
I've not used it so can't comment about its operation/usefulness.
Ulysses_:
Glad others have seen the light too. I don't understand why some core developers of TC don't see it yet.
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