Tiny Core Linux
General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: NoMoreNoLess on January 06, 2011, 11:32:58 AM
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Hi TCL folks,
TCL is a great accomplishment! Cramming a fully functional OS into 10MB just astounds me. And booting just to ram none the less.
I am curious if there are any other OS projects with a GUI, linux or non-linux based that come close to the footprint of TCL, past or present?
The only thing I can think of is Window 3.1, which came on 6 floppies (~8.64MB).
Thanks,
NMNL
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kolibrios
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Assembly?! That is insane.
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There have been dozens of Linux distros bootable from floppy into a ramdisk, but such is not really supported anymore starting with kernel 2.6.
e.g. cramdisk and tomsrtbt are still historical references though.
Also I could remember having had geexbox on a CD around 8MB.
ELKS and menuetOS (of which I think upper mentioned kolibrios is a fork of) wouldn't even manage to fill all space of a floppy... (and did I mention that one could get 3D graphics from a 1200KB OS?).
P.S.: debatable if what resides in a path like C:\PROGRAMS\WINDOWS\ could be called an OS...
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Curious as to why one would not consider the contents of C:/... an operating system?
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I think as you are misquoting me, therefore you wouldn't or couldn't understand what I meant to imply.
When it comes to Windows 3.1, \WINDOWS\ would just be one amongst many (optional) folders within the \PROGRAMS\ folder of a DOS operating system.
Also one would boot DOS, but (optionally) run Windows 3.1 (as a program).
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Most other small operating systems are lacking functions.
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Hi: If you are looking for competition to TC you have to search a lot.
We had the floppy disk linuxes for a long time.
Then AUSTRUMI 2.1.7 is compact but not as powerful as TC
There is SLITAZ from switzerland which is compact (50 MB) but has a different philosophy and look at theit forum. I do not like it at all.
The TC forum is outstanding with a lot of activity every day.
I am glad to have Tiny Core and now I am not looking any further. There is nothing out there what can touch
this system. ( Especially when it comes to size and flexibility) Our primary goal should be to really
understand the "philisophy" behind this piece of work and . The more I work with TC the more
facinated I get.
I hope this post is not to much off topic. But I think TC is a revolution. For 2011 I hope to to get a new ANDROID Smart-Pad_Phone (all in one) with a free partition to run my personal TinyCore on it.
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For 2011 I hope to to get a new ANDROID Smart-Pad_Phone (all in one) with a free partition to run my personal TinyCore on it.
Doubtful that would be x86, so TC as of now could not work on it.
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I think as you are misquoting me, therefore you wouldn't or couldn't understand what I meant to imply.
When it comes to Windows 3.1, \WINDOWS\ would just be one amongst many (optional) folders within the \PROGRAMS\ folder of a DOS operating system.
Also one would boot DOS, but (optionally) run Windows 3.1 (as a program).
Gotcha. It's been so long, I had not even considered the DOS + Windows 3.1 combo.
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Our primary goal should be to really
understand the "philisophy" behind this piece of work and . The more I work with TC the more
facinated I get.
I am fairly new to TCL and OSes with fairly small footprints.
May I ask, what are the "core" philosophical differences, in your own words, behind SliTaz and TCL?