Re:Levinux – A Tiny Version of Linux for Education
by guyprovost on Sunday April 20, 2014 @07:17AM
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This absolutly got my attention, going to check for sure. I'm older, and when I was in school we learn OS with Minix, a port of UNIX on the 8086 architecture. But this is so much more!
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Re:Levinux – A Tiny Version of Linux for Education
by miklevin on Sunday April 20, 2014 @06:48PM
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Believe it or not, I considered Minix for this project, as I did BSD and BareMetal OS. In the end, "some Linux" won, and at this time only Tiny Core Linux roughly estimates the ease of a Debian-like repository system to support server-building scripts, while still being a minute distro (under 10MB without the Levinux parts) and not being a hard drive install while still offering persistence... well, the list goes on. It was a very tall order I was trying to fill, and at the time, the QEMU+Tiny Core Linux combo nicely fits the bill.