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PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux
- cas 6mo agoA very clever immutable Linux distro, and is the basis for the excellent PiCorePlayer, a favourite of mine to run Squeezebox clients (and/or Lyrion music server) on any Pi https://picoreplayer.org/ https://picoreplayer.org/
- alsetmusic 6mo agoTinyCoreLinux has had a special place in my heart for years. This makes me wanna break out some of the pis from nerdy storage bins.
- packetlost 6mo agoNote: this readme appears to be from a very old version (5.x)
- irickt 6mo agoThis seems to be the latest release, 16.0: https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27681.0.html https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27681.0.html But I don't see a comparable overview.
- packetlost 6mo ago17.0 has preview build, but yeah the readme is still mostly relevant I think
- SahAssar 6mo agoIs the suggested download a plain http without any signing?
- weikju 6mo agoIf only TinyCore’s design sensibilities had garnered more attention over the ostree monstrosity
- oso2k 6mo agoI say this as someone who likes and use TinyCoreLinux and PiCore, there are some mind numbing ways TCL makes immutability work. I chalk this up to Linux and immutability being sometimes in contention with each other. Lots of Linux code make assumptions paths being writable.
- akdev1l 6mo agowhat’s the problem with ostree?
- lproven 6mo agoHow long have you got? It's a gratuitously overcomplex implementation of a relatively simple concept which uses opaque complex tooling to fake a filesystem, lying to the user about what's on their disk, in ways that are so baroque only because its primary corporate sponsor does not have a COW-snapshot filesystem in its flagship distro. There are alternative tools that do all it does in simpler, cleaner, more understandable ways, with better tools that are also smaller and simpler. openSUSE, ChromeOS, Nix, Guix, and indeed, TinyCore all achieve the same goal with tooling that is about 1% of the size or complexity. Unix is about being small and simple and clean. This is its core design principle. Ostree is none of these.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6mo ago> openSUSE, ChromeOS, Nix, Guix, and indeed, TinyCore all achieve the same goal with tooling that is about 1% of the size or complexity Those make very specific tradeoffs to do what they do. OpenSUSE needs a snapshotting filesystem, and uses btrfs. ChromeOS needs doubled up partitions and can only keep 2 versions. I profoundly disagree that nix and guix are simpler than... almost anything, actually. They're great, but they turn the entire world inside out to do it. Not familiar with TinyCore so can't comment. This shouldn't be read as a strong defense of ostree, mind, just that every single option appears to have significant tradeoffs thus far.
- eccgecko 6mo agoWould it be possible to boot into this from an existing system and use PiCore to take a full system backup by piping dd to nc? After reading https://askubuntu.com/questions/1416758/remote-full-system-backup-of-a-running-system https://askubuntu.com/questions/1416758/remote-full-system-b... I’ve been debating whether to try this out on some of my live headless pi’s that I manage remotely, but have been worried to try it without a test system first. Seems like booting into PiCore could be perfect for this scenario. You could even use some of the A/B try-boot functionality that rpi have introduced into the bootloader over the past year, and basically have a kind of live recovery os. Would love to know if that could be possible. Been mulling this over for the past couple weeks and then this HN post about PiCore pops-up literally day I was going over that askubuntu post again! I’m taking it as a sign…..
- akdev1l 6mo agoYou can do this already from the initramfs
- worksonmine 6mo agoCool project, but they should really upgrade at least the downloads to https...
- zyrconlabs 6mo ago[dead]