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piCore Test Releases / Re: piCore 17 Beta Releases

« Last post by Juanito on May 10, 2026, 04:52:29 AM »

piCore boots without problems, but the latest kernel module extensions are missing 🙂

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TCB Talk / core? Linux Filesystem Hierarchy

« Last post by mocore on May 09, 2026, 10:15:49 PM »

just happen to have found this stack-ex question

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/567351/whats-the-difference-between-hier7-and-file-hierarchy7-man-pages

which contains many views regarding the conformity to , or deviation from the "Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard"
of various distros

which made me wander what the status of core is wrt the FHS

the most recent build script i could find
 manually searching :0 *shock*
 was
http://tinycorelinux.net/14.x/x86/tcz/src/man-db/build-man-db.sh

man-pages.tcz
/usr/local/share/man/man7/hier.7

i guess appears to be stock

though its not exactly clear to me

Q>what creates man-pages.tcz ?
etc
http://tinycorelinux.net/14.x/x86/tcz/man-pages.tcz.info

man-db-doc.tcz
man-db-locale.tcz
man-db.tcz
man-doc.tcz
man-pages.tcz
man.tcz

it dose not appear all the above are created by build-man-db.sh

/usr/local/share/man/man7/hier.7

i guess appears to be stock

the question still remains  how tcl fs is unique ?

and might tcfs be reflected in  hier.7
( if any one even scans/reads man pages *anymore*  )

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: AI command prompts: "minification"

« Last post by xor on May 09, 2026, 11:53:29 AM »

Re: AI command prompts: "minification"

Keyword: minification

What is minification?
Code minification is the process of removing unnecessary characters (spaces, line breaks, comments, and sometimes abbreviations of variable names) from source code to reduce file size without changing its functionality. This process also makes web pages load faster because it reduces the amount of data the browser needs to download.

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TCB Talk / Re: Thinking of using Tiny Core; advice please?

« Last post by Rich on May 09, 2026, 09:33:55 AM »

Hi mocore
That would be a good alternative.

I just don't want someone shooting themselves in the foot, and
then coming back complaining they only have 9 toes.

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Dirty Frag

« Last post by mocore on May 09, 2026, 09:32:56 AM »

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dirty-Frag-Linux
via
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=398141


the workarounds pi mentioned  forum made me recall topics hear about removing unneeded modules 

i managed to find
Help with trimming modules.gz to minimum size? @ https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=23447.0

but i just chanced upon this link in the forum
which is i think the one with a script i recalled 
Local initramfs generation script (stripping unneeded modules) @ https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,9028.0.html

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TCB Talk / Re: Tiny Core v17.0 upgrade issues

« Last post by Stefann on May 09, 2026, 09:20:44 AM »

Boring update...
it still runs..

Code: [Select]

mon day:  5  8 | hh:mm:ss: 15:07:48 | Still alive after 0k + 1 loops
.............
mon day:  5  9 | hh:mm:ss: 15:09:47 | Still alive after 219k + 471 loops

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Tiny Core in Containers / Re: bubblewrap

« Last post by mocore on May 09, 2026, 09:09:44 AM »

My interest is to run Firefox (all programs exposed to internet) in bwrap. PS: here a sample how a GUI application can run from bwrap https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Bubblewrap

idk if the linked wiki contained this when @nick65go posted ?

Bubblewrap has a simpler GUI frontend called
https://github.com/igo95862/bubblejail - Bubblewrap based sandboxing for desktop applications

it appears to be an alternative  to firejail

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TCB Talk / Re: Thinking of using Tiny Core; advice please?

« Last post by mocore on May 09, 2026, 07:20:18 AM »

As I followed this thread, I have come to the conclusion you
are just a few keystrokes away from destroying the data
on one of your hard drives.

..and then proceed very carefully with the tc-install-GUI to avoid deleting your windows installlation and/or data.

imho an less dangerous alternative
would be to find a spare sata disk
and continue testing
with drives containing current install sata/power disconnected  !
to avoid accidental data loss

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TCB Talk / Re: Thinking of using Tiny Core; advice please?

« Last post by Juanito on May 09, 2026, 06:17:16 AM »

probably best stick to windows then

Either that or you read the TinyCoreLinux book:

http://tinycorelinux.net/book.html

..and then proceed very carefully with the tc-install-GUI to avoid deleting your windows installlation and/or data.

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TCB Talk / Re: Thinking of using Tiny Core; advice please?

« Last post by JunkYard on May 09, 2026, 06:06:33 AM »

Hi JunkYard
I don't believe Tinycore is the right Linux distro for you.

It is geared more towards individuals that at least have
some minimal knowledge of Linux looking to configure
a system that matches their needs.

Personally, I do not think you meet that description. As I
followed this thread, I have come to the conclusion you
are just a few keystrokes away from destroying the data
on one of your hard drives.

I'd like to suggest you Google for:
linux distro with auto install next to windows

Then look through the results for a version of Linux that
better matches your comfort level.

Use it to learn more about Linux and entering commands
manually. Tinycore is not all point and click. You will need
to learn to enter commands from the keyboard.

After you have some more experience, and if you are still
interested, you could take another look at Tinycore.

i used linux mint cinemon for a few year ago. but it was complete junk! nothing ever worked on it could not under stand any of the commands, maybe if they wrote it in .ing english then i could understand it

probably best stick to windows then