@adisonverlice it's @OS1337 and also the problem is not to "make an OS" on it's own.

@landley, who maintains #toybox, has an exellent talk going over how #mkroot, which is basically the minimal toybox + #musl / #linux system, can be build relatively quickly, but that's how you make some #embedded system.

• He did not just do #LinuxFromScratch and half of Beyond Linux from Scratch to evidence it can be expanded to arbitrary complexity, but that doesn't make it a #distro, much less a desktop one.

Cuz there are thousands of microcorrections, configurations and optimizations even in a super-lightweight distro like #TinyCore (which is based on #BusyBox) and "getting things to boot" is the easy part.

• Cuz I just took @w84death 's #Floppinux documentation and merely substituted BusyBox for toybox.

So most of the hard work had already been done by the @linuxfoundation / Linux developers, toxbox contributors and others.

• But merely getting a shell with blinky cursor to boot isn't considered sufficient for most people these days when we have people who are raised on touchscreen-based GUIs…

And there is the major workload!

@joepie91 nodds in agreement because not everyone has $$$$ to spend for a smartphone and with very, very few exceptions phones < € 500 and espechally < € 250 are essentially manufactured eWaste to a degree...

• And that doesn't have to be this way!

I don't expect some € 75 shitphone from Aperzon or ShitExpress to rock the latest secure #Android version but like the equivalent of #TinyCore (i.e. #postmarketOS) should be in the cards so people ain't stuck with a trivially exploitable piece if tech but at least a useable tool.

• I know the folks at #GrapheneOS are well-meaning when it comes to tying their #Aftermarket-#Firmware to few devices with very specific security requirements in hardware but that's just not feasible for the masses.

@distrowatch

spirit OS included software

@dillo An ultra-light web browser for very low-resource systems

https://spirit-os.sourceforge.io/

@Gammitin yeah, #TinyCore is nice...

• Personally I want to build something even smaller and more frugal: @OS1337

@jbqueru and even then there are a lot of #distros that should be portable to #RISCv like @bunsenlabs / #BunsenLabs #Linux and #TinyCore.

I just don't have an #OrangePi #RV2 to target against...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mln2j3VxAos

I've just updated my Tinycore distro to the latest version and of course am playing with it again. So much fun!

@theregister
Sad news, and especially bad for #TinyCore! #TinyCoreLinux

@millihertz no.

Just honestly pointing at the free all-you-can-take buffet with everything from #TinyCore to @bunsenlabs to #UbubtuLTS…

@OS1337 @Yuki @bjornsdottirs well, it does work given aggressive #xz compression.

Problem is rather to shove more on a 1440kB FDD than initramfs+kernel.

Tho a bootfloppy w/ #syslinux that then bootstraps multiple splitted initramfs parts in RAM from multiple disks should be possible.

#TinyCore shows that a minimalist distro can be featureful!
http://tinycorelinux.net

@Jgbird

#tinycore is if you have to worry about surface tension.

A different tiny mushroom on the same tree, with my gloved finger for scale.
#fungi #Mosstodon #tinycore

@codeofamor @catsalad

We will make #tinyCore happen yet!!