Hello,
what are the main differences between Slitaz and TinyCore?
These two distros seem to be almost the same thing...
Thank you
Hello,
what are the main differences between Slitaz and TinyCore?
These two distros seem to be almost the same thing...
Thank you
SliTaz is older and the creator of TinyCore cites it as the inspiration behind first making TinyCore - but it's not based on SliTaz or vice versa.
That said, TinyCore has different goals. It's designed to run frugal and fully in RAM while loading and unloadings packages on the fly as users need them. Their package system isn't that extensive or easy to use, but features the better known lightweight packages. The interface are custom written fltk apps rather than using existing Desktop Enviroments like LXDE or XFCE. Basically, it's designed for minimalists who tend to be experts in their fields - these same experts that later become developers on it.
SliTaz on the other hand, aims to be a lightweight system capable of even running on low spec systems while being attractive at the same time. It's designed to be installed on a system and be built up by the user to be what they need. We also feature a much larger package repository that gets updated as needed. SliTaz also offers you the choice of interface - from the default LXDE one, to RazorQt, to IceWM like Puppy, to XFCE - you can even mix and match components of each to make your system like you like.
So yeah, they're about as similiar as a car and motorcycle. Each will get you from point A to B, but that's where the similarity ends.
Just switched from tinycore. About 'lightweight system capable of even running on low spec systems'. In some cases Slitaz is slightly worse due to lack of zram+zcache tinycore feature, i will try to port it. And it seems some packages like IceWM was converted *.deb and grab crazy deps? both unneeded perl and python. I hope we'll see at least glibc2.15, for compatibility with already old buntuLTS.
And I was shocked, when i saw mplayer from Slitaz repos. Two versions, any of them compiled with bad flags - not for low spec systems. No runtime cpu detection results in larger cpu usage - 100%+framedropping. Still using Mplayer from tinycore4 on Slitaz - 70% cpu usage.
> We also feature a much larger package repository that gets updated as needed.
This is something new to me. I was under the impressions that TinyCore's repository was larger.
In fact I was not able to find Claws Mail in SliTaz's repository, which for me is a big disappointment.
@Magoo
What are you even talking about?
tazpkg -gi claws-mail
@az_ua New developers are always need. Join the mailing list and Christophe will probably give you dev access if you ask.
I had not searched via the TazPanel like you did, but via the online Mercurial repository (http://pkgs.slitaz.org/), and it does NOT list Claws Mail. Why?
Hi Magoo,
Thanks for pointing out the search bug at pkgs.slitaz.org
When changes were made to the search engine it broke that function.
An email has been sent to the slitaz mailing list about the problem to alert the maintainers.
Try searching for claws,alsa,locale at pkgs.slitaz.org using default search type Package.
No Package
Packages search should return search results on a partial name query.
Google would be useless if you had to type the exact search to get results.
Partial name search works in tazpkg,tazpanel/packages and as Alanyih pointed out on the mailing list if the drop down menu is changed from Package to Description.
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