Tiny Core Linux 11 - Super Lightweight for Old Systems 

Well, 1 GHZ was lightning fast for a system that could do everything in the past.... Windows 2000 for the win.

Cool project would be to put a Pi inside the case, wire the screen and keyboard to the Pi.

Could you please update us on your experience?!

Try antiX if you haven't. Runs smooth as a silk on my P4

No, it has nothing to do with hard drive. When you encounter a problem in linux, don't hesitate to ask on forums for help.

You can't compare these systems. Antix comes with more features but is nowhere near as reliable on a hard drive. But I always have trouble with the Deb pkg manager.. :)

Can you give any examples where it's user unfriendly?

@@SinsBird Other than it loading fast, pretty much every way I tried using it. It's a Linux for geeks who, when you try to find advice or instructions, don't seem to be able to talk to non-geeks.

I suspect you wrote it off too quickly. I'm just beginning to use it but so far I solved every problem myself by searching and reading TC forum. Only when I couldn't get graphics card driver to work because I simply did not know what modules to install in what order I just asked on the forum stating that I'm not experienced linux user and I got help immediately.

It depends. What if your "old" is different from others? Arch only supports 64bit these days. Debian? It's possible. Void Linux? Maybe. Sometimes you need an OS that supports your platform officially.

@@ScorpiosLifeLog there's branches of arch like Arch Linux ARM or Arch Linux 32...

CCF_100 I said “officially”. I know those two exist. However, Arch 32 doesn’t look so promising to me. ARM? It might be the future of Arch. The emphasis here is on future.

Keep in mind the vast majority of what goes into Tiny Core's repositories coincides with the goal of using as little data as possible, and unlike Arch it is completely open source. There are advantages to both, and Tiny Core will most likely have a slow development its whole life. I was tempted to leave after I had some issues with it, but I realized that had people done that to the more popular issues they never would have gotten the chance to grow. Arch is definetly better for some, but TC is promising and appreciates all the help it can get.

@@ScorpiosLifeLog True. I have to do GUI stuff and Arch with GUI will never consume 33MB.

Firefox doesn't come installed, just write "fire" on the app thing and you should find it if your internet connection is working. If it isn't, then coreplus didn't come with your wifi drivers already installed so you'll have to use ethernet.

I use Coreplus 10 and I use the Seamonkey browser, it works fine on my ancient ACER 1GB RAM and plays RU-vid. Firefox kept crashing and I use VLC2 as my screen recorder which works fine. VLC 3 doesn't work at all.

... at least not spying on you :)

@@peterlustig8201 Windows 3.11...... How COULD they spy on you back then when most people at that time didn't have internet access?

@@peterlustig8201 that was a pretty fuckin' dumb thing to say

Perhaps number of people do,(but how to know?) it would depend on the limitations and compatibility of them, and only people who are really into minimalism and tech in every single aspect of life, and know a lot about linux are most likely.I once used puppy linux for fun, and It seemed basic documentation was doable, (pehaps with a bit of a struggle,) other wise any other reasons other people would have is possesing really old hardware, and needing to make use of it.

I love it for scripting or working on documents because it fires up quickly but obviously it depends what you need.. :)

I have an old ThinkPad T42 that I use primarily as a writing machine but it’s suddenly had to become my daily driver. It runs XP well enough but none of the other “lightweight” Linux distro run well enough (or at all sometimes) for me to actually get work done. I’m thinking about trying this out on it and seeing if it will meet my needs and not kill this 16 year old laptop.

Try 12.0 then. 1. Boot the system. 2. (Download only option) firmware-nvidia.tcz, graphics-5.10.3-tinycore.tcz, xf86-video-nv.tcz, Xorg-7.7-3d.tcz. 3. Add everything to onboot list in the order above and remove Xvesa from onboot list. 4. Reboot and see if it's better now.

AntiX minimum RAM is 100MB For tiny core its 48MB

load up some CP/M