Tiny Core Linux：一个带有图形桌面的23 MB Linux发行版

Tiny Core Linux：一个带有图形桌面的23 MB Linux发行版
Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

核心项目提供高度模块化的Linux发行版，从一个最小的“Core”（11MB）开始，仅包含内核和必要的启动文件。这个基础允许用户通过添加扩展来构建定制的桌面、服务器或设备。 “TinyCore”（16MB）是一个预构建的示例，包含基本的FLTK/FLWM桌面环境。“CorePlus”提供了一个用户友好的起点，预包装了易于安装的扩展。该项目强调用户控制权；用户可以选择通过在线仓库或自行编译来添加应用程序和硬件支持。TinyCore本身启动速度快，主要在RAM中运行，扩展可以可选地存储在持久存储上。核心项目是社区驱动的，鼓励共享知识、开发和贡献应用程序扩展。它的目标是创建一个游牧的、超小的图形桌面操作系统，可以从各种介质启动。

## Tiny Core Linux：轻量级发行版 Tiny Core Linux 是一款非常小的 Linux 发行版，只有 23MB，最近在 Hacker News 上被讨论。它因能够在旧硬件上运行而备受关注，一位用户提到，这得益于其易于学习的包管理器，尤其是在 32 位笔记本电脑上。这次讨论引发了人们对类似项目（如 Damn Small Linux，曾用于数据恢复）的怀旧之情。用户们讨论了 GUI 需求的变化，指出在资源极其有限的机器上曾经存在可用的图形环境。有人对网站缺乏 HTTPS 和下载安全性表示担忧，建议使用校验和以及互联网档案馆等替代来源来验证下载。一些用户还提倡更精细的用户界面，而另一些人则捍卫该发行版的极简主义方法，反对现代 UX 趋势中过多的空白。最后，关于是否需要图形桌面本身也引发了争论，一些人更喜欢基于终端的设置。

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Welcome to The Core Project - Tiny Core Linux

The Core Project is a highly modular based system with community build extensions.

It starts with a recent Linux kernel, vmlinuz, and our root filesystem and start-up scripts packaged with a basic set of kernel modules in core.gz. Core (11MB) is simply the kernel + core.gz - this is the foundation for user created desktops, servers, or appliances. TinyCore is Core + Xvesa.tcz + Xprogs.tcz + aterm.tcz + fltk-1.3.tcz + flwm.tcz + wbar.tcz

TinyCore becomes simply an example of what the Core Project can produce, an 16MB FLTK/FLWM desktop.

CorePlus ofers a simple way to get started using the Core philosophy with its included community packaged extensions enabling easy embedded frugal or pendrive installation of the user's choice of supported desktop, while maintaining the Core principal of mounted extensions with full package management.

It is not a complete desktop nor is all hardware completely supported. It represents only the core needed to boot into a very minimal X desktop typically with wired internet access.

The user has complete control over which applications and/or additional hardware to have supported, be it for a desktop, a netbook, an appliance, or server, selectable by the user by installing additional applications from online repositories, or easily compiling most anything you desire using tools provided.

The latest version: 16.2

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About Our Project

Our goal is the creation of a nomadic ultra small graphical desktop operating system capable of booting from cdrom, pendrive, or frugally from a hard drive. The desktop boots extremely fast and is able to support additional applications and hardware of the users choice. While Tiny Core always resides in ram, additional applications extensions can either reside in ram, mounted from a persistent storage device, or installed into a persistent storage device.

We invite interested users and developers to explore Tiny Core. Within our forums we have an open developement model. We encourage shared knowledge. We promote community involvement and community built application extensions. Anyone can contribute to our project by packaging their favorite application or hardware support to run in Tiny Core. The Tiny Core Linux Team currently consists of eight members who peruse the forums to assist from answering questions to helping package new extensions.

Join us here and on IRC Freenode #tinycorelinux.

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Robert Shingledecker, December 01, 2008