- VGA color palette was 18-bits/256K, but input into the palette was 8-bit per channel. (63,63,63) is visibly different from (255,255,255).
- Not true. You can enable “Mount Mode of Operation: TCE/Install” where packages will be mounted off disk. See:
- I don't know about CSI cameras. My use case for TCL doesn't require a CSI camera. But it looks like others have made a CSI camera work:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26713.0.html
I recommend asking on that forum. Folks are helpful.
- There’s an installation option to run apps off disk. It’s called “The Mount Mode of Operation: TCE/Install”.
- With some modifications, yes. Boot2docker and boot2podman were based on tinycorelinux.
- With CorePlus, you have the the choice of some 10 GUI environments. I prefer openbox or jwm.
- I love Tiny Core Linux for use cases where I need fast boot times or have few resources. Testing old PCs, Pi Zero and Pi Zero 2W are great use cases.
- Wake-on-LAN not available to you?
- Only if they never call DOS or the BIOS or execute a Real Mode Software Interrupt. When they do, they ask the DPMI server (which could be an OS like Windows 9x or CWSDPIM) to make the call on their behalf. In doing so, the DPMI server will temporarily enter into a VM86 Virtual Machine to do execute the Real Mode code being requested.
- VM does not mean Virtual Memory in this context. VM does mean Virtual Machine. When an OS/DPMI Server/Supervisor/Monitor provides an OS or program a virtual interface to HW interrupts, IO ports, SW interrupts, we say that OS or program is being executed in a Virtual Machine.
For things like Windows 3.x, 9x, OS/2, CWSDPMI, DOS/4G (DPMI & VCPI), Paging & Virtual Memory was an optional feature. In fact, CWSDPMI/djgpp programs had flags (using `CWSDPR0` or `CWSDPMI -s-` or programmatic calls) to disable Paging & Virtual Memory. Also, djgpp’s first DPMI server (a DOS extender called `go32`) didn’t support Virtual Memory either but could sub-execute Real Mode DOS programs in VM86 mode.
- There were loadlin and grub4dos back in the day. A more recent development is doslinux (https://github.com/lpsantil/doslinux) but it is far less complete. But more hackable if you just want to see something work.
- I went smallwall after m0n0wall was shutdown. I recall the smallwall & smoothwall maintainers briefly considered joining forces.
- You might use a data URL to allow the file to be downloaded. Gemini gave me a recommendation on how to do this with this query.
https://www.google.com/search?q=use+data+url+to+download+fil...
- For those that might want a software solution, Trixter made softhddi- https://github.com/MobyGamer/softhddi
- Another fun way to test connectivity in pure bash (need a revision from the past 15 years) is
Replace google.com and port 80 with your web or tcp server (ssh too!). The command will error/time out if there isn’t a server listening or you have some firewall/proxy in the way.timeout 5 bash -c 'cat < /dev/null > /dev/tcp/google.com/80' - The Dell Optiplex community did this a few years ago and they were even able support older generations of Optiplex. The actual NVMe boot module is pretty generic and I’d suspect it would work with other machines.
https://tachytelic.net/2021/12/dell-optiplex-7010-pcie-nvme/
https://tachytelic.net/2022/02/dell-optiplex-790-990-nvme/?a...
- Lots of people are forgetting the context in which FastCGI was conceived: servers were expensive uniprocesser machines and enterprise servers with 2 or 4 sockets were relatively extremely expensive. All processors at the time paid heavier penalties for context switching and/or creating between processes. So the optimization folks building web servers were things like preforking the front end in Apache and/or preforking the middle end (FastCGI, WSGI, SCGI, Java App Servers, et al). The database was Oracle, or MySQL or SQLServer which was already multi client based. Also, in *nix land, the popular scripting languages (Perl, PHP, bash) of the time had a ways to go in reducing their startup times.
- I do miss having Jim Whitehurst around. Jim spent 90 minutes on the Wednesday afternoon of my New Hire Orientation week with my cohort helping to make sure all of us could login to email and chat, answering questions, telling a couple short stories. He literally helped build the Red Hat culture starting at New Hire. Kind of magical when the company is an 11K person global business and doing 5B in revenue.
Cormier and Hicks have their strengths. Hicks in particular seems to care about cultural shifts and also seems adept at identifying key times and places to invest in engineering efforts.
The folks we have imported from IBM are hiring folks that are attempting to make Red Hat more aggressive, efficient, innovative. Some bets are paying off. More are to be decided soon. These kinds of bets and changes haven’t been for everyone.
- cpitman!!!! Miss you a ton!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Core_Linux#System_require...