Lovely... TCL + Pharo .. !




On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:17 AM, mikefilonov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Torsten,
>
> Yes sure I can. So this PharoNOS is basically TinyCore Linux with pure X
> server and Pharo running in fullscreen.
>
> I have made some auto-installation scripts which configure the disk so no
> setup wizard is needed. All space available is mounted under /mnt/universe/
> so you may use that folder to store stuff. Everything else is stored in
> memory. Nice side effect of this is an ease of update as you may just
> replace the ISO and you'll get the new version of everything (except of the
> image of course).
>
> Image is chosen on start by reading the "/mnt/universe/image" file. You may
> upload other image and change this file so after reboot it will start with
> a
> new one. No safeguards here though - if it breaks there is no cure for it
> yet :( I'm thinking over on how to implement some recovery on "Image not
> available or broken". Hm, just now get the idea to run Image chooser if
> default image failed. Is it available on linux?
>
> Jan Tomsa  has pointed out  that the disk setup is quite dangerous
> (https://twitter.com/DetektivTomy/status/522860736155238401) I plan to
> update it later today with more safe solution which will not erase all the
> data. The idea is to format the disk without a partition table or to work
> from RAM. Also I think Pharo should be run under root user so you can bind
> to any port.
>
> I can also put more 3d-party libs like sqlite3, so we can have some
> interesting apps for the terminals run on embedded Pharo :) However I need
> some feedback on what is needed.
>
> So that is it, all comments are welcome.
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