Little Distro

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nimdays
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Little Distro

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This is my 1st experimental distro minux based on Tiny Core
Let me know for anything to help me improve this
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Re: Little Distro

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Sorry for the broken beta iso , reuploaded.
Freebasic is availlable under Package folder ,you can install it + binutils with mitcz from the menu.
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Re: Little Distro

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V1.0 Release
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Re: Little Distro

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Release 1.0.1 with more apps
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Re: Little Distro

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Hi Nim
Looks interesting..
is there a way to change current window title into something more candy in FLTK ?
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Re: Little Distro

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aurelVZAB wrote:Hi Nim
Looks interesting..
is there a way to change current window title into something more candy in FLTK ?
Thanks , can you give an example maybe with pic ?
Btw the default scheme is gtk , you can change that to gleam from .Xdefaults file under home dir.
I'll fix this next time
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Re: Little Distro

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hi nim
sorry man i download iso from sourceforge size 23MB ..right
and try to run with MobaPC virtual machine and not work ..
is this Live CD iso or not ?
thanks
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Re: Little Distro

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aurelVZAB wrote:hi nim
sorry man i download iso from sourceforge size 23MB ..right
and try to run with MobaPC virtual machine and not work ..
is this Live CD iso or not ?
thanks
Yes this is live cd and the size only 23.1 mb ,I just downloaded it from sf because worry for broken iso again.
Tested with qemu under windows xp,

Image

Is this mobapc from mobatek ?
MobaLiveCD - Not good, I'm afraid
Maybe i'll try it.
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Yes it is and on windows XP work fine ( i dont test Minux undr xp yet) but it looks that not work under win7
why i am not sure ,,,maybe not work with other distros to ,,,
so i will try SliTaz ISO to see what kind of problem is here...
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Re: Little Distro

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aurelVZAB wrote:Yes it is and on windows XP work fine ( i dont test Minux undr xp yet) but it looks that not work under win7
why i am not sure ,,,maybe not work with other distros to ,,,
so i will try SliTaz ISO to see what kind of problem is here...
I have no win7 to test so it's nice if you want to help :)
Just to make sure you also can test the parent tinycore 6 because if doesnt work then minux also.
Optional you also can test tinycore based like nanolinux and xiopan
if you have flashdrive you can test it with unetbootin(ok from my machine)
You also can put minux under your existing linux partition if the boot loader is grub
1. Put core.gz and vmlinuz to /boot
2. Create tce directory under root (/tce) and copy all from cde directory from the iso
3. Edit menu.lst from /boot/grub for example

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title SliTaz GNU/Linux 5.0 (Kernel vmlinuz-3.2.53-slitaz)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.53-slitaz root=/dev/sda5 quiet 

title MS
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1 

title Minux
kernel /boot/vmlinuz tce=hda5
initrd /boot/core.gz
Change hda with your own.
adele
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Re: Little Distro

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Hi nimdays,

I loaded your ISO with VMware Player/Win10 and it ran.
But, I have to confess, the only reason I'd like to run Linux would be to test out the compatibility of my FB programming with Linux systems. But I am not sure that I could DL the binaries, click once or twice, and start trying it out. WIndows user do not know too much about repositories and other Linux stuff.

So, for this board's members and all others who are interested, why not integrate a pre-installed FB into a custom installation/distribution? Maybe a "full" install with the possibility to recompile the compiler itself?
At least, maybe speaking just for me, for all those who do not want to spend too much time doing - at first glance only! -"suspicious" things like "sudo --get anySoft --inspect --if_i_am_living" (just a joke) and resolve dependencies and such things it would be much easier to taste the smell of the Linux world.

Just install the new Version of FB with an IDE/editor, some words about compiling and where to find the new&selfmade binaries, and maybe, this might help to find some new Linux lovers, or, much better, real good friends :)
Doing so really would be appreciated. At least, by me.

Adele
PS: Adele is a nickname, translates to "fare well, guy"
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Re: Little Distro

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adele wrote:Hi nimdays,

I loaded your ISO with VMware Player/Win10 and it ran.
But, I have to confess, the only reason I'd like to run Linux would be to test out the compatibility of my FB programming with Linux systems. But I am not sure that I could DL the binaries, click once or twice, and start trying it out. WIndows user do not know too much about repositories and other Linux stuff.

So, for this board's members and all others who are interested, why not integrate a pre-installed FB into a custom installation/distribution? Maybe a "full" install with the possibility to recompile the compiler itself?
At least, maybe speaking just for me, for all those who do not want to spend too much time doing - at first glance only! -"suspicious" things like "sudo --get anySoft --inspect --if_i_am_living" (just a joke) and resolve dependencies and such things it would be much easier to taste the smell of the Linux world.

Just install the new Version of FB with an IDE/editor, some words about compiling and where to find the new&selfmade binaries, and maybe, this might help to find some new Linux lovers, or, much better, real good friends :)
Doing so really would be appreciated. At least, by me.

Adele
PS: Adele is a nickname, translates to "fare well, guy"
Thanks for your feedback :)
Maybe i will put a separate iso with freebasic within plus a little tutorial,in the meantime you can load freebasic.tcz + binutils from package folder
I you want to try it with real hardware and have grub4dos you can make it multiboot but i dont know is this will work with win10
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Re: Little Distro

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Hi nim!
3 years gone and i still don't have my favorite distro .
Yes to be honest from time to time i use wifi-slax just for testing wifi things.
Why I posting this .
Maybe i will have time this winter to try to make my own fork .
I use Beini / Xiaopan and both work well.
Both are based on tinyCore...

1 .So what you think or better what i need to know if i want make my own distro?
2. Is tinyCore simple enough for that job?
3 . Is there any good tutorial or something similar.

tinyCore is really small and fast and i like to use it more
of course with Free Basic or C maybe?

thanks!
and HNY..
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Re: Little Distro

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Slax is a little bit cheat it was based on [Sla]ckware Linu[x] the mother of all Linux distros but Slax used Debian now.

I use Slackware from beginning Slax should be renamed in Dax :-)

Joshy
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Re: Little Distro

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yes Joshi
slax WAS a nice and small and fast distro based on great Slackware BUT now
what a heck is that ...based on Debian...no thanks - never liked Debian and any clone or derivate!
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