I love it.
Now imagine with our specialised kernel or shrunk down version…
We are preparing to
- remove a lot of code from Pharo 90 (spec1, eye inspector, GT,
Glamour….)
- but also to give the possibility to load on demand projects that we
are integrating and TESTING
- Microdown
- Roassal 30.
S
> On 8 Sep 2020, at 03:22, tbrunz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This is running 32-bit Pharo 80 on 32-bit TinyCore 11.1 (Linux kernel 5.4.3).
>
> There is a 64-bit version of TinyCore, which I plan to test next...
> Then test 64-bit Pharo 80 and try Pharo Launcher on top of that.
> Then on a Raspberry Pi...
>
> Here's what's intriguing about this:
>
> TinyCore Linux is SUPER tiny -- 11MB for the headless 'Core' version, and
> 16MB for a FLTK/FLWM desktop. (Many different desktops are available.) The
> 'CorePlus' version (which I'm booted on) is still only 106MB; it supports
> Wifi & comes with installation tools & a variety of DEs to pick from.
>
> With TinyCore, you "build it the way you like it", by adding just the
> packages you want in your Linux image. With a stripped-down implementation,
> it's around the same size as the Pharo VM!
>
> Which makes TinyCore basically "a snap-on HAL module for the Pharo VM" that
> gives you what amounts to bare-metal operation -- and it can run 100% from
> RAM (as well as via mounting packages from persistent storage, on a
> package-by-package basis).
>
> You can persist TinyCore on disk, and keep your installed packages ("tce
> extensions") and your settings & user files persisted separately. That
> helps keep the TinyCore OS from being corrupted -- it's much like the
> '.image' file for Pharo; your changes are kept in a separate file.
>
> This opens up the possibility of making tiny/embedded little "appliances"
> that boot into TC, then auto-launch a Pharo image -- headless or with a UI,
> all without the burden of launching/maintaining full OS to do so.
>
>
>
> --
> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
>
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