Thinking of using Tiny Core; advice please?

[JunkYard]

First you need to check if you have a network connection.

Open a terminal window and enter the following:

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ping -c2 google.com
[you should see something like the following]
PING google.com (172.217.20.46): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.217.20.46: seq=0 ttl=115 time=17.079 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.20.46: seq=1 ttl=115 time=17.941 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 17.079/17.510/17.941 ms


emelfm (simple file manager)
firefox-ESR (web browser)

I have only done the first bit the "ping -c2 google.com" and it displays

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PING google.com (42.251.30.113) 56 data bytes
65 bytes from 42.251.30.113 seq=0 ttl=100 time...
65 bytes from 42.251.30.113 seq=1 ttl=100 time...

---google.com ping statistics---
2 packets transmitted 2 packets recived recived 0% packet loss
round trip min/avg/max 46.446/57.026/67.587 ms
    [Edit]: Fixed code tags.  Rich

[JunkYard]

Dose that mean its working?

emelfm (simple file manager)
firefox-ESR (web browser)

if I type that into the terminal, will they bough download to the desktop?

[Rich]

Hi JunkYard
That means you have an Internet connection.

Now enter:

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tce-load -wi emelfm firefox-ESR

[CNK]

Note that Firefox will completely lock up when browsing many websites on your PC with only 512MB RAM. That's not a Tiny Core issue, modern Firefox needs more RAM than that for most usage regardless of the OS.

TC has extensions for other Web browsers that work better with low RAM. Your internet is working fine, so use the apps browser to find and install them via a GUI as described in the book. Seamonkey is based on older Firefox with lower system requirements, and there's also netsurf, dillo, links-full...

[JunkYard]

TC has extensions for other Web browsers that work better with low RAM.

Could you recommend any please? and if so do you have the terminal code so I can install it please?

[JunkYard]

Hi JunkYard
That means you have an Internet connection.

Now enter:

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tce-load -wi emelfm firefox-ESR

I have just installed it; then I double clicked on the icon but it wont load!
I went to the terminal and types "firefox" after a few minutes it said. Crash anouncment graphics critical error

[Juanito]

Try this browser, it uses less memory

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tce-load -wil dillo
Did the emelfm file manager work?