PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/armv6/releases/README

by gregsadetsky • 3 months ago

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cas• 3 months ago

A 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/

philips• 3 months ago

Would love to hook this up to Zaparoo. I have really enjoyed using Zaparoo + Jellyfin to avoid menu diving when watching movies and shows.

pgwalsh• 3 months ago

I added rsgain to piCorePlayer. Should be in the latest repository. Great utility IMO.

alsetmusic• 3 months ago

TinyCoreLinux has had a special place in my heart for years. This makes me wanna break out some of the pis from nerdy storage bins.

packetlost2• 3 months ago

Note: this readme appears to be from a very old version (5.x)

irickt• 3 months ago

This seems to be the latest release, 16.0:

https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27681.0.html

But I don't see a comparable overview.

packetlost2• 3 months ago

17.0 has preview build, but yeah the readme is still mostly relevant I think

SahAssar• 3 months ago

Is the suggested download a plain http without any signing?

weikju• 3 months ago

If only TinyCore’s design sensibilities had garnered more attention over the ostree monstrosity

oso2k• 3 months ago

I 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.

akdev1l2• 3 months ago

what’s the problem with ostree?

lproven2• 3 months ago

How 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.

eccgecko• 3 months ago

Would 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-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…..

akdev1l2• 3 months ago

You can do this already from the initramfs

worksonmine• 3 months ago

Cool project, but they should really upgrade at least the downloads to https...

PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux

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