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MicroCore, Anyone?
netzen:
--- Quote from: Jason W on March 29, 2009, 07:57:12 AM ---... and brought the size of the iso down to 6.3MB. I put all that I removed into an extension so I could have it back with one command.
... I added the extension back on and then started X and added my usual apps like nothing was different.
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I just started to play with TinyCore, so I don't have enough knowledge to participate in the current topic,... but...
I like the idea Jason is using...
Maybe, in the future, for developers alike, it is possible to have some kind of "TinyCore Compiler/Builder" that facilitate the user to "choose" versions and components always using the same infrastructure...
Something like this:
[higres]
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3197/3397710998_48cce93375_o.jpg
It maybe possible to have a "torrent repository on-demand"...
Or, some kind of TinyCore LiveCD Builder, that allows to "build" the kind of TinyCore we want...
Anyway,... just some ideas to consider for the long run...
tobiaus:
i don't think tinycore needs to be more sophisticated, i think almost everyone forgets what it's like to be a noob, or, they were a noob when the word meant a lot more than it does now.
these days, a noob may boot ubuntu and simply wonder how to uninstall applications, or why the term is useful. he's not a noob that is going to start compiling x11 or installing drivers, he's not going to think about the command line for tasks that a gui will do just as well as windows. he's not going to try to customize every aspect of the system if he can learn to use the defaults. depending on when you first used linux, being a "noob" means you know much less than you would if you were new to linux in the earlier days- it also means you can do more, easily.
tinycore gives you a pretty friendly environment, some people will think "oh great, it looks like that old windows machine from the 80's" when they see jwm, they've never even used an alternative shell in windows.
tinycore shows people they can have something different, but not totally unfamiliar. i think it's very good to say it's a desktop distro, not a distro that allows you to install a desktop if you want. but the way i suggested, it would let you get to a microcore by deleting one file, (if you did a usb install) or remove one file from the iso, or, it would be very easy to have two isos. but i don't think the first thing *most* people should see, when they live in a world of huge graphical distros- is the command line unless they want to.
tinycore has a nice looking graphical installer for everything, appbrowser. someday it will be able to install nicer looking window managers (although jwm is my favorite.) appbrowser should be the standard experience for the average guy trying tc for the first time. you won't get it from the command line- and really, you shouldn't. but it should be very, very easy to get to microcore from the "average," standard 10mb version, or there should be a microcore iso too.
jpeters:
--- Quote from: netzen on March 29, 2009, 11:45:40 PM ---
Or, some kind of TinyCore LiveCD Builder, that allows to "build" the kind of TinyCore we want...
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That would be Robert......
tobiaus:
--- Quote from: jpeters on March 30, 2009, 04:11:15 AM ---That would be Robert......
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actually the mkmydsl article seems to allude to some online custom dsl builder. i've never seen one though, or read about it anywhere else. in the future it should be easier to create websites that do custom distro builds before you even download the .iso. in tc this would mean it would be easier to have a few extra drivers at boottime.
jpeters:
MydlsMaker? I never saw it before either. As the article noted however, it's much easier to make the iso locally, just altering your own setup. How long does it take to do a tc remaster?
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