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Tiny Core Linux 2.1: Less is more

Posted Jul 9, 2009 14:07 UTC (Thu) by ibisum (guest, #59406)
Parent article: Tiny Core Linux 2.1: Less is more

This would be a lot more impressive if it was self-hosting, development wise.

That is, if it had a compiler onboard and everything you need to build apps for the distribution itself was onboard and functional from initial boot-up ..

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Posted Jul 9, 2009 14:54 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

Yeah. And if it included Gnome, KDE, and XFce by default. And Eclipse, along with common plugins. And Django and RoR application servers. And a Bugzilla server.

Tiny Core Linux 2.1: Less is more

Posted Jul 12, 2009 2:57 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

This would be a lot more impressive if it was self-hosting, development wise.

That would be cute, but I don't think it would impress me.

I have a bicycle that does not contain any tools for designing or building bicycles, or even for enhancing itself. And I would find it quite unnatural if it did.