PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux(tinycorelinux.net)
84 pointsby gregsadetsky7 hours ago5 comments
  • eccgeckoa minute 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.

    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…..

  • cas5 hours 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/

    • philips5 hours 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.
  • alsetmusic5 hours 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.
  • weikju2 hours ago
    If only TinyCore’s design sensibilities had garnered more attention over the ostree monstrosity
    • oso2k6 minutes 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.
  • packetlost2 hours ago
    Note: this readme appears to be from a very old version (5.x)