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Fun little 20 minute lunchtime experiment booting this old vgnp11z umpc with #tinycore #linux ... the umpc has a hardware fault sadly but between random shutdowns Tiny Core Linux is working well and BLAZINGLY fast which has bever been said about these old sony #umpc!

I think I've finally graduated from #linux college.

I've got an old Sony Vaio with 2gb ram and a piss-poor CPU. I tried everything on it. #openbsd, #alpineliux, #tinycore, #antixlinux.. but at the end of the day, it's just slow. So I settled on Alpine with no graphical session. I've been living in the TTY for about 2 weeks now and I gotta say.. who needs a GUI?

With #tmux as my window(pane) manager, I'm able to do everything I need it to.

And yes, just sent the #inxi 3.3.37 package off to #TinyCore - which is the last step of the process.

So that completes this 4 month release cycle. It would have been less but the monitor scaling feature of course turned into a rabbit hole.

But read the changelog if you are curious. It's long and thorough by design because it's the actual record of what changed, why, and what isn't currently doable. I use it often to find when why and how features are added or removed or changed.

New on 'Stuff': Resurrecting an old MacBook Air with Linux (KaOS) #linux
#linux-distros
#mac-book-air
#personal
#english
#kaos
#nitrux
#void-linux
#tiny-core
#elementaryos https://stuff.graves.cl/posts/2024-10-18_19_18-resurrecting-an-old-macbook-air-with-linux-(ended-up-with-kaos).html

And yes, for those waiting, I plan on doing the #inxi #TinyCore release concurrently because there are a lot of tiny linux fixes in 3.3.32, including supporting at least to some degree all the known #TinyX servers, and fixing some always broken system init detections for #busybox based systems. And #Slitaz support! that's another groovy tiny linux distro. And #Alpine support enhanced. Those are all cool projects that to me are one of the best things about the #gnu/#linux ecosystem.

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@adamw @mjgardner @Perl There's a solution to that, which is I believe somewhat acceptable albeit annoying, #Debian #sarge used to use it, around 2006ish? @Perl was only the language, and core-modules was core modules. But as someone who packages for #TinyCore, I can tell you what nonsense such concerns are, in TC, perl, the whole thing, is 30 MiB.

Maybe more uncompressed, I don't know, that's the install size of the binary. Full core modules.