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Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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518 points LorenDB | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 14:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ifh-hn ◴[06 Dec 25 16:04 UTC] No.46174339[source]▶
I've used many of these small Linux distros. I used to have Tiny Core in a VM for different things.

I also like SliTaz: http://slitaz.org/en, and Slax too: https://www.slax.org/

Oh and puppy Linux, which I could never get into but was good for live CDs: https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/

And there's also Alpine too.

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dayeye2006 ◴[06 Dec 25 16:57 UTC] No.46174762[source]▶
wondering what's your typical usage for those small distros?
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1. jbstack ◴[06 Dec 25 17:02 UTC] No.46174792[source]▶
They can be nice for running low footprint VMs (e.g. in LXD / Incus) where you don't want to use a container. Alpine in particular is popular for this. The downside is there are sometimes compatibility issues where packages expect certain dependencies that Alpine doesn't provide.