Guess this was couple of years back..

TCL + Pharo on a Virtual Box: My play with it then..

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On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:52 AM, S Krish <krishnamachari.sudha...@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Lovely... TCL + Pharo .. !
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> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:17 AM, mikefilonov <mikefilo...@gmail.com>
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>> Hi Torsten,
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>> Yes sure I can. So this PharoNOS is basically TinyCore Linux with pure X
>> server and Pharo running in fullscreen.
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>> I have made some auto-installation scripts which configure the disk so no
>> setup wizard is needed. All space available is mounted under
>> /mnt/universe/
>> so you may use that folder to store stuff. Everything else is stored in
>> memory. Nice side effect of this is an ease of update as you may just
>> replace the ISO and you'll get the new version of everything (except of
>> the
>> image of course).
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>> Image is chosen on start by reading the "/mnt/universe/image" file. You
>> may
>> upload other image and change this file so after reboot it will start
>> with a
>> new one. No safeguards here though - if it breaks there is no cure for it
>> yet :( I'm thinking over on how to implement some recovery on "Image not
>> available or broken". Hm, just now get the idea to run Image chooser if
>> default image failed. Is it available on linux?
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>> Jan Tomsa  has pointed out  that the disk setup is quite dangerous
>> (https://twitter.com/DetektivTomy/status/522860736155238401) I plan to
>> update it later today with more safe solution which will not erase all the
>> data. The idea is to format the disk without a partition table or to work
>> from RAM. Also I think Pharo should be run under root user so you can bind
>> to any port.
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>> I can also put more 3d-party libs like sqlite3, so we can have some
>> interesting apps for the terminals run on embedded Pharo :) However I need
>> some feedback on what is needed.
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>> So that is it, all comments are welcome.
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