ralphy wrote: > TinyCore can be challenging but the benefit of minimal storage > requirements and resilience to power cuts are huge. > > There is another similiar project 'Alpine Linux' > (https://alpinelinux.org/) which may be a better option. It appears to > be actively developed unlike TinyCore. > > One another note. If you plan to try to reuse some of the additional > squeezeplay applets from the birdsonawire version, you'll need to build > jivelite using lua 5.1.5 instead of jitlua 2.0.5. That's what I've done > for the jivelite used in picoreplayer, as the language differences > between the two are just enough to render the two incompatible. I can > help you with that if needed.
Thankyou - I'll look into Alpine Linux. Yes, running from ram alone seems attractive, plus I might be able to fit it into the 1GB flash on the Joggler more easily. When the device is solely running JiveLite as a kiosk-type app, with no other function, are the benefits of running from ram really very important? Does Linux do stuff in the background that can corrupt the drive if it's not shut down properly? I did have a look at some of the Applets in Squeezeplay OS, and all the 'initial run' setup stuff could be very useful. I'd like to contact the author for permission to re-use his work, but as far as I can see he uses Twitter for communication, and I don't tweet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110040 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
