On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Michael Farnbach <noble.obl...@gmail.com> wrote: > As with most answers, this one depends on a few things... > > Do you want it tiny for an alternative arch, like ARM? > Do you want it tiny and fast, because it is running on something really old? > Do you want it tiny and fast because you are running something beefy and > common (i5, etc..) but running it into the ground with blender, and you just > want the OS to stay out of the way? > Or are you doing it just for the feeling of being spartan and free? How > spartan are you willing to go? How much do you want to bleed? Is this just > an adventure, or what? > > Well, here's the answers I have. > > Debian rules on ARM. There's a number of tuned distro's to different ARM > platforms. Wiki is your friend to investigate. > Tiny Core, Goat, Puppy, Arch (crunchbang, archbang) and a few others really > come through here. You'll find these (the ones I know of at least) are > either Debian, Slackware, or LSF based. Although consider staying on the > console (see note on GRML below). > You can run the answers for #2 for this, or the full distros that they come > from in a minimal mode. But for "stay out of the way" while running the > latest obscure packages, if you know what you are doing there's nothing > better than Gentoo -- but you have to be willing to do your own work. > There's a lot of junk you can do away with if you start from scratch, and > Gentoo next to that. It is a great development environment, and for all > those reasons its a great way to have it your way. > > If you want to try something harkening back to the 2005 days of Gentoo (back > when it was the brand spanking new baby of a brilliant programmer), try > Exherbo. Its not that spanking-new clean, but its very reminiscent of those > days. > If you really want it your way (your own init scripts or even compiled C > init, you'll have to start with LSF, and then develop from there). > > Sure, Plan9, old school FreeDOS, Qnix, Hurd, one of the BSD's ... I dunno .. > what is the most "hurt me plenty" distro that is like a light-weight camping > adventure roughing it under a big blue sky? Qnix and Plan9 have the > advantage of their own novel networking models. But for real bare bones, > then there's a the OS's written in assembly ... MenuetOS, Kolibri, Mike OS, > BareMetalOS, etc... > > Some honorable mentions ... GRML (you may never be more productive on the > command line). It is my go-to linux distro for any time I want to run on a > computer that I don't want to change the OS.
I have been looking at Tinycore for my Cr-48 netbook, once I have time to take it apart to flash the BIOS anyway. Anyone have any tips/observations about using Tinycore as a day to day distro?
