Tiny Core Linux

Off-Topic => Off-Topic - Tiny Tux's Corner => Topic started by: mocore on July 24, 2026, 03:42:26 PM

Title: linux distribution for 486 and Pentium/586 vintage PCs
Post by: mocore on July 24, 2026, 03:42:26 PM



https://github.com/SharktasticA/SHORK-486


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Aspects of Alpine Linux and Tiny Core are also kept in mind.
Title: Re: linux distribution for 486 and Pentium/586 vintage PCs
Post by: patrikg on July 24, 2026, 03:50:12 PM
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Aspects of Alpine Linux and Tiny Core are also kept in mind.

What about T2SDE (https://t2linux.com/)
Title: Re: linux distribution for 486 and Pentium/586 vintage PCs
Post by: gadget42 on July 25, 2026, 04:10:25 AM
snippet from OP provided url
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AI policy
SHORK 486 itself, SHORK Utilities and SHORK Entertainment are developed under a no LLM-generated code or documentation policy. PR requests that contain contributions from an LLM bot or are obviously LLM-generated/vibecoded will be denied. I cannot vouch this for third-party bundled software, or that the tutorials I'm learning from and sources I'm reading weren't influenced by LLM content unbeknownst to me, but I will do my best to recognise such and ensure this doesn't affect the things I control. Even considering locally-trained models or limiting LLM usage to speeding up repetitive tasks (etc.), my wish is for the SHORK family to be a human-made project.
Title: Re: linux distribution for 486 and Pentium/586 vintage PCs
Post by: mocore on July 25, 2026, 04:11:52 PM
What about T2SDE (https://t2linux.com/)

idk
... need to boot it *more* tbh

but *irrelevantly*  your question reminds me of

 ;D
(Monty python - What have the romans ever done for us )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foi342LXQE || https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=9foi342LXQE


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snippet from OP provided url
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AI policy
 my wish is for the SHORK family to be a human-made project.

some one should tell them ...
( The Humans Are Dead with a new AI update! )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzwu7g909KU || https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=uzwu7g909KU


Title: Re: linux distribution for 486 and Pentium/586 vintage PCs
Post by: patrikg on July 26, 2026, 02:53:59 AM
Hi @mocore

Rene is a Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/t2sde) & Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/user/renerebe/videos) & Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/c/MoreReneRebe/videos) streamer, so you can see how T2SDE is build.
And being used, you have too see some streams to get whats about the T2SDE teori.

Sorry for his angry temperament, he rants a lot. Some of his arguments is silly, but lots of them is correct. 
Title: Re: linux distribution for 486 and Pentium/586 vintage PCs
Post by: vinceASPECT on August 03, 2026, 01:22:25 AM
Hi forum,

Where-abouts are the iso files or usable builds to put this SHORK on a floppy?

Would the floppy version take networking and a graphical browser?.....(images)?

thx
C
Title: Re: linux distribution for 486 and Pentium/586 vintage PCs
Post by: mocore on August 03, 2026, 06:14:22 AM

Where-abouts are the iso files or usable builds to put this SHORK on a floppy?



the readme in the git-repository  says you have to build it !

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Notice & disclaimers
Building SHORK 486

Running build.sh directly for natively building SHORK 486 will automatically perform several tasks on the host computer and operating system, including enabling 32-bit packages (Debian), installing prerequisite packages, modifying PATH, and creating some environment variables. I would advice you review what the script does to ensure it does not conflict with your existing configuration. Consider Dockerised building to minimise impact to your host operating system.

Running clean.sh will delete everything build.sh has downloaded, created or generated; the build and images directories and their contents. If you have made any manual changes to anything inside those directories, they will be lost when running this shell script.

https://github.com/SharktasticA/SHORK-486/blob/main/shork-486/build.sh
Title: Re: linux distribution for 486 and Pentium/586 vintage PCs
Post by: mocore on August 03, 2026, 06:19:10 AM
so you can see how T2SDE is build.
And being used, you have too see some streams to get whats about the T2SDE teori.


if you have any links to examples?
 the list invidious displays
seems to mostly have hw related stuff

i only found one about t2sde upping the feature bounty
after breif scroll
Title: Re: linux distribution for 486 and Pentium/586 vintage PCs
Post by: patrikg on August 03, 2026, 06:34:34 AM
The topic is "linux distribution for 486 and Pentium/586 vintage PCs."
So you have also lots of another arch like ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, ...
Not only X86 486 and Pentiums.

So I don't know what examples you ask for.
Title: Re: linux distribution for 486 and Pentium/586 vintage PCs
Post by: mocore on August 06, 2026, 02:58:37 AM


So I don't know what examples you ask for.

just wandering if
you had any thing specific you could link to in mind , wrt

so you can see how T2SDE is build.

about how t2 is built