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Someone on the net was saying that tinycore is more stable than kolibri. Is this true?
the reference, please?Jake wrote:Someone on the net was saying that tinycore is more stable than kolibri. Is this true?
It is incorrect to compare Tinycore and KOS directly.
Tinycore is a linux - not less, not more. Just a very small one. It inherits all the best features of linux along with all its problems.
In the text mode it's core is just about 10Mb; plus the bulky XWindow graphics eats about 40Mb more.
Very good for a linux, hence compare it with KolibriOS kernel which is less than 150Kb on disk (about 40Kb compressed)!
Tinycore can run thousands of s/w products developed for linux, that's true.
We have just a limited set of ported and D.I.Y. programs, utilities and games and can't compete with them at all.
http://en.digitalkamera.com/worlds-smal ... ng-system/art_zh wrote:the reference, please?
"Also u may try Tinycore Linux too which is only 10 MB in size but a little more stable than Kolibri."
http://www.windowsanonymous.org/index.p ... &Itemid=42
"I'd found Kolibri by accident and was going to review it just for kicks when I got the idea to run it alongside TinyCore, which is a bit more stable.."
I'm interested to hear your comments about this
http://tinycorelinux.com/forum/index.php?topic=2844.0
"There may be open source operating systems (e.g. BSD) that in some theoretical sense are "better" than Linux. However, nobody seems to have taken the trouble to make a distro of any of them that is as light and flexible as TCL. When somebody does I'll give them another look."
"..i can imagine that tc/mc could be reduced to less than 5 MB with much more flexibility than kolibri and much more usability. tc/mc would be then unexampled."
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/intro.html
Also Linux - is very fond of SWAP.
Kolibri not use any SWAP.
8 Mb or 48 Mb - feel the difference?Unusually Fast. Unlike most operating systems, the Tiny Core can run completely from RAM. Individuals with RAM to spare can even use Tiny Core to load and run their programs from RAM (you didn't know your computer could run Open Office and Firefox so quick). Experienced users can still install Tiny Core to disk, but Tiny Core can run out of 48 megabytes of RAM ... or less
Also Linux - is very fond of SWAP.
Kolibri not use any SWAP.
Are there any big advantages or disadvantages to using SWAP?
Sorry, I didn't understand the point you are making here. Please could you explain.Mario wrote:8 Mb or 48 Mb - feel the difference?
Mario pointed the well-known fact that KolibriOS needs 8Mb minimum RAM size to work properly.Jake wrote:Are there any big advantages or disadvantages to using SWAP?
Sorry, I didn't understand the point you are making here. Please could you explain.Mario wrote:8 Mb or 48 Mb - feel the difference?
A linux needs about 50Mb to start a very simple (and ugly) graphics system. 10Mb is the declared RAM size to start a minimal text-mode linux OS.
Tinycore developers are very proud their whole system (+ some medium-sized applications) perfectly fits in RAM and therefore DISK SWAPs happen rarely.
Congratulations!
But the other fact is: most of KOS system functions and drivers easily fit inside the CPU cache and therefore RAM_READ_CYCLES happen rarely!
About SWAP - Kolibri doesn't have one and doesn't need it at all.
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