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tiny core
tiny core runs from a usb and make a good file recovery for windows that wont boot. and its portable and fast.
Originally posted by sgunhouse:
Many of these distros are completely redundant at this point. In other thread, Frenzie and I were wondering why we need yet another Ubuntu based distro.why would Tiny Core be any better than anything else?
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Why, so they can show you their artwork of course! At this point that's probably the only difference between his distro and some other existing one.
I can see having Ubuntu versions for different desktop environments (Gnome. KDE, XFCE, LXDE, E17, etc.) as they already did that. A specialty version with certain software not included in the default config? Edubuntu, Mythbuntu, etc. - old hat. ... but I guess we're off-topic.
The intent of Tiny Core is what its name suggests ... it is just the core part of a Linux distro, no GUI, no office suite or media apps, etc. You can add all that stuff of course, but that's not what Tiny Core itself is. Obvious conclusion - while it probably includes NTFS support and thus can read Windows files, it doesn't include any specialty recovery and repair tools. Adequate for a geek like me or thee to use I'm sure, but we already have our own and probably better tools for that. And for someone without Linux experience, probably not adequate.
I can see having Ubuntu versions for different desktop environments (Gnome. KDE, XFCE, LXDE, E17, etc.) as they already did that. A specialty version with certain software not included in the default config? Edubuntu, Mythbuntu, etc. - old hat. ... but I guess we're off-topic.
The intent of Tiny Core is what its name suggests ... it is just the core part of a Linux distro, no GUI, no office suite or media apps, etc. You can add all that stuff of course, but that's not what Tiny Core itself is. Obvious conclusion - while it probably includes NTFS support and thus can read Windows files, it doesn't include any specialty recovery and repair tools. Adequate for a geek like me or thee to use I'm sure, but we already have our own and probably better tools for that. And for someone without Linux experience, probably not adequate.
tiny core is just that a core os with a very lite desktop (flwm). you install it on a usb thumb drive and the pick the apps you want. no distro add software. it is very lite weight and boots fast. just mount the c drive copy and past to a folder in the usb drive. shut down and transfer files to a working pc. I had fedora running on a usb but booting different pc's would be forever. tiny core boots whats need to run an mount partitions. I did not think any one was going to reply so I made it short.
it seems to me if going to run the heavy desktops it should be installed to HD.
what distro is there for system recovery?
it seems to me if going to run the heavy desktops it should be installed to HD.
what distro is there for system recovery?
Well, there SystemRescueCD among others.
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puppy is good for small usb instalation.
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Puppy, Damn Small Linux, Tiny Me (based on PC Linux OS) ... there must be a dozen small distros. I even used Nimblex a few times - a roughly 100 MB distro which (at the time) used the KDE desktop. But yeah, as far as actual repair "System Recovery CD" is the first one to come to mind ...
Originally posted by sgunhouse:
How did they manage to get KDE on 100 MB, even if they were using KDE 3? The newest version 2010-beta is 200 MB, but still that's pretty impressive. oh wait.... a 69 MB version still with KDE (no multimedia or GTK, but you don't need that if you're trying to rescue your system) I hope they haven't stopped development because that's a pretty impressive feat.I even used Nimblex a few times - a roughly 100 MB distro which (at the time) used the KDE desktop.
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No office suite, no multimedia ... no big name browser either. Yeah, Firefox, Opera or Chromium (and plugins and all that) would add lots of bulk to a system. Not certain how much bulk Konqueror would add, probably left it off too.
Keep in mind, all these tiny distros are compressed. Other than the kernel and bootloader (which would have to be loaded before the uncompressor), everything else - default settings, apps and other data - are compressed using whatever was the best compression they could find. Uncompressed size would be at least twice as much - maybe more if there's a lot of text (or settings, which are saved as text in Linux).
On a USB device, they'll store modifications to the settings uncompressed (if designed for that - I recall Nimblex did), when dealing with a CD they couldn't generally do that.
Keep in mind, all these tiny distros are compressed. Other than the kernel and bootloader (which would have to be loaded before the uncompressor), everything else - default settings, apps and other data - are compressed using whatever was the best compression they could find. Uncompressed size would be at least twice as much - maybe more if there's a lot of text (or settings, which are saved as text in Linux).
On a USB device, they'll store modifications to the settings uncompressed (if designed for that - I recall Nimblex did), when dealing with a CD they couldn't generally do that.
I'll have to try this SystemRescueCd. I found it easy to recover personal files then format, load the OS for windows. It would be nice to just get the OS running again. But does it run buggy after using SystemRescueCd? Tiny core which I take it everyone is aware of is only 10 MB. Can SystemRescueCd transfer files say to a USB drive before exe system restore. I'll have to download it.
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