I love it. Now imagine with our specialised kernel or shrunk down version⦠We are preparing to - remove a lot of code from Pharo 90 (spec1, eye inspector, GT, Glamourâ¦.) - but also to give the possibility to load on demand projects that we are integrating and TESTING - Microdown - Roassal 30. S
On 8 Sep 2020, at 03:22, tbrunz <wild.ideas@gmail.com> wrote:
This is running 32-bit Pharo 80 on 32-bit TinyCore 11.1 (Linux kernel 5.4.3).
There is a 64-bit version of TinyCore, which I plan to test next... Then test 64-bit Pharo 80 and try Pharo Launcher on top of that. Then on a Raspberry Pi...
Here's what's intriguing about this:
TinyCore Linux is SUPER tiny -- 11MB for the headless 'Core' version, and 16MB for a FLTK/FLWM desktop. (Many different desktops are available.) The 'CorePlus' version (which I'm booted on) is still only 106MB; it supports Wifi & comes with installation tools & a variety of DEs to pick from.
With TinyCore, you "build it the way you like it", by adding just the packages you want in your Linux image. With a stripped-down implementation, it's around the same size as the Pharo VM!
Which makes TinyCore basically "a snap-on HAL module for the Pharo VM" that gives you what amounts to bare-metal operation -- and it can run 100% from RAM (as well as via mounting packages from persistent storage, on a package-by-package basis).
You can persist TinyCore on disk, and keep your installed packages ("tce extensions") and your settings & user files persisted separately. That helps keep the TinyCore OS from being corrupted -- it's much like the '.image' file for Pharo; your changes are kept in a separate file.
This opens up the possibility of making tiny/embedded little "appliances" that boot into TC, then auto-launch a Pharo image -- headless or with a UI, all without the burden of launching/maintaining full OS to do so.
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